SAMOi 


a  /r 


PAINE  GENEALOGY, 


IPSWICH  BRANCH. 


INCLUDING     A     BRIEF     HISTORY     OF     THE    NOKMAN     RACE 

(TO  WHICH  ALL  FAMILIES  OF  "  PAINE"  BELONG) 

FROM    ITS    ORIGIN    UNTIL    THE    CONOJJEST 

AND     THE     CRUSADE  IN     WHICH 

HUGH  DE  PA YEN 

SERVED. 


BY 

ALBERT  W.  PAINE, 

BANGOR,   ME. 


BANGOK,  MAINE: 

PRINTED  BY  O.  F.   KNOWLES  &  COMPANY. 

1881. 


Entered  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  1881,  by 

ALIJEKT  W.  PAIXK, 
In  the  Office  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress,  at  Washington. 


To 

THE  VERY  NUMEROUS  INDIVIDUALS,  MALE  AND  FEMALE, 

ON  BOTH  SIDES  OF  THE  ATLANTIC,  WHO  HAVE 

CONTRIBUTED  SO  MANY  OF  THE  STATISTICS 

COMPILED  IN  THIS  FAMILY  HISTORY, 

THIS  WORK  IS  RESPECTFULLY 

DEDICATED,  WITH  THANKS, 

BY  THE  AUTHOR. 


PREFACE. 

THE  present  work,  now  submitted  to  the  public  eye, 
was  originally  undertaken  and  prosecuted  by  the  writer, 
in  moments  of  leisure  and  as  a  matter  of  diversion  for  his 
own  and  his  family's  use  alone.  Subsequent  conference 
with  the  Editor  of  "  The  Paine  Family  Records"  led 
him  to  make  his  discoveries  more  public  and  general, 
through  the  pages  of  that  valuable  periodical.  The  suc- 
cess which  has  attended  his  investigations  and  the  grat- 
ifying character  of  the  results,  have  induced  him  to  give 
a  more  specific  form  to  his  work,  by  embodying  the  facts 
respecting  the  lineage,  gained  at  the  expense  of  so  much 
time  and  labor,  in  a  separate  volume,  as  more  likely  to 
perpetuate  the  history  and  make  it  acceptable  to  all  such 
as  are  interested  in  the  family  in  question. 

The  different  families  of  • -PAINE"  are  very  numerous, 
having  no  connection  whatever  with  each  other,  as  will 
be  seen  from  a  perusal  of  the  book.  Of  all  these,  one 
alone  is  selected  for  the  subject  of  this  publication.  That 
one  is  the  family  to  which  the  writer  belongs,  and  to  which 
he  has  given  the  name  of  the  ''Ii'swicii  BRANCH."  from 
the  fact  that  it  was  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  the  family  made 
their  first  permanent  settlement  in  America. 

BANGOR,  ME.,  May  i,  iSSi. 


PART  I. 

ANTE-EMIGRATION   HISTORY. 


CHAPTER   I. 

Introduction . 

HUME,  in  his  ''History  of  England,"  commences  his 
work  by  an  allusion  to  "the  curiosity  entertained 
by  all  civilized  nations  of  enquiring  into  the  exploits  and 
adventures  of  their  ancestors,"  a  sentiment  universally 
felt  and  recognized.  Such  being  the  case,  how  much  more 
curiosity  and  interest  must  every  individual  feel  to  enquire 
into  the  history  of  his  own  lineage,  whose  blood  he  in- 
herits, and  whose  character  has,  to  a  greater  or  less  extent, 
determined  his  own.  Few  apothegms  have  more  of  truth 
and  beauty  in  them  than  that  which  lies  at  the  foundation 
of  all  genealogical  enquiry,  that  "  The  glory  of  children 
are  their  parents."  And  no  teaching  is  of  more  import- 
ance as  bearing  upon  that  almost  divine  command  of 
'•'•know  thyself"  than  this  very  one  of  family  history. 

The  doctrine  of  heredity,  as  now  developed  and  con- 
firmed, when  faithfully  studied  and  applied  to  any  individual 
person,  can  be  most  implicitly  relied  upon  to  give  his  true 
character  in  all  its  natural  and  fundamental  characteristics 
and  propensities.  "Like  father,  like  son."  Hence  the 
importance  of  the  subject. 

True  and  perfect  genealogical  research,  in  its  investi- 
gation backwards  to  the  origin  of  any  particular  family, 
does  not  cease  with  a  knowledge  of  the  individual  ances- 


6  Paine   Genealogy. 

tors  of  the  line,  but  where  that  ends,  alike  interesting  and 
important  work  is  found  in  tracing  the  history  of  the  race 
to  which  they  belonged  and  with  which  they  acted.  The 
clew  is  thus  followed  which  leads  to  the  determination  of 
all  that  is  most  interesting  and  important  in  one's  full  his- 
tory and  character. 

The  different  families  of  "Paine,"  as  existing  in  vari- 
ous parts  of  the  country,  being  mainly,  if  not  wholly,  of 
Norman  extraction  and  descent,  as  will  be  hereafter  shown, 
it  becomes  a  very  important  as  well  as  interesting  studv 
to  trace  the  historv  of  that  people,  so  far  as  its  genealog- 
ical character  is  involved,  back  to  its  origin  and  thence 
down  to  the  time  whence  distinctive  lines  of  familv  lineage 
can  be  established.  To  satisfy  this  curiosity  the  fol- 
lowing brief  outline  is  produced  as  gleaned  from  volum- 
inous pages  of  history  and  authority. 


Ipswich  Branch. 


CHAPTER    II. 
Aryan  and  Scandinavian  History. 

TRADITION,  as  well  as  the  nature  of  language,  teach 
us,  that  long  before  the  beginning  of  recorded  his- 
tory, the  inhabitants  of  the  earth  formed  distinct  races, 
among  which  the  Aryan  or  Japhetic,  and  the  Semitic  or 
Shemite,  were  the  most  prominent,  both  having  their 
origin  in  Asia,  where  it  would  seem  the  human  species 
was  first  planted  by  its  maker.  In  the  course  of  time  their 
increased  numbers,  their  overstocked  population,  made 
necessary  an  exodus  of  these  people  to  other  and  more 
western  countries.  No  exact  history,  of  course,  exists  as 
to  the  order  of  their  emigration,  or  the  time  of  its  prog- 
ress, but  the  truth  is  no  less  patent  that  such  an  exodus 
did  take  place,  and  all  European  history  is  based  on  this 
great  fact. 

While  the  Semitic  race  more  generally  kept  to  the 
warmer  regions  of  the  new  land,  the  Aryan,  originating 
in  Persia,  (so  called  from  Arya  its  ancient  name,)  pursued 
a  more  northerly  course  and  followed  the  higher  latitudes 
of  Europe.  The  western  portions  of  this  great  division 
of  the  earth  thus  received  their  first  great  impulse  of  life, 
by  a  flood  of  Aryan  blood  poured  out,  as  it  were,  over 
their  hills  and  plains.  Their  first  "invasion" — as  histo- 
rians have  been  accustomed  to  call  it — was  evidently  that 
by  the  Celts,  who  having  spread  themselves  over  the  coun- 
try now  known  as  Germany,  scattering  as  they  went, 
were  gradually  pressed  forward  over  the  channels  until 


S  Paine.    Genealogy, 

large  numbers  found  and  established  their  permanent 
homes  in  Ireland.  Wave  after  wave  of  successive  emi- 
grations worked  this  and  gave  to  the  island  its  distinctive 
and  lasting  Celtic  character. 

After  the  Celts,  the  Teutons,  another  branch  of  the 
great  Aryan  family,  made  their  sure  progress  across  the 
continent  by  a  more  northerly  course,  until  they  came  to 
the  shores  of  the  now  so  called  Baltic  Sea.  Crossing  this 
they  filled  the  spaces  now  occupied  by  the  kingdoms  of 
Norway,  Sweden  and  Denmark,  the  ancient  Scandinavia, 
displacing  the  aboriginal  tribes  of  Laps  and  Fins,  who 
were  probably  the  offspring  of  a  still  earlier  Asiatic  emi- 
gration. Along  with  this  tide  were  others  who,  taking  a 
more  southerly  path,  forced  their  way  into  Gaul,  forming 
the  settlements  known  as  the  Western  Franks,  and  in 
many  cases  passing  over  the  channel  to  the  Island  of 
Great  Britain. 

As  yet,  however,  and  for  a  long  time,  all  these  people 
had  adopted  no  form  of  government  and  sustained  no 
relation  with  each  other  as  inhabitants  of  the  new  coun- 
try. Such,  however,  as  had  found  homes  across  the  Baltic, 
gradually  improved  their  condition  and  formed  themselves 
into  distinct  governments  under  names  such  as  they  now 
l>ear,  and  adopted  codes  of  law  suited  to  their  rude  con- 
dition of  life.  The  same  course  was  also  adopted  by  their 
neighlx>rs  of  Gaul  and  England,  though  for  ages  no  com- 
mercial or  other  relation  existed  between  them  :  but  all 
were  strangers  to  each  other,  and  for  centuries  remained 
so,  though  the  common  descendants  of  the  great  Aryan. 
Teutonic  race.  The  difference  in  place,  however,  and 
corresponding  difference  in  climate  and  other  natural 
characteristics  of  territory,  worked  a  like  difference  in  the 
character  of  the  people,  giving  to  the  Scandinavians  more 


Ipswich  Branch.  9 

of  that  spirit  of  bravery,  courage  and  enterprise  which 
has  ever  signalized  the  inhabitants  of  the  north  over  those 
of  more  southern  and  warmer  countries.  As  one  of  the 
results,  Norway  and  Sweden  have  ever  succeeded  in  re- 
sisting all  efforts  at  their  subjugation  and  maintained  their 
independence  of  all  other  powers. 

Ages  and  centuries  passed,  when  again  the  necessity 
was  imposed  upon  the  people  of  these  governments,  as 
in  their  old  Asiatic  home,  to  seek  new  homes  for  their 
overstocked  population  and  new  scenes  for  their  industry 
and  enterprise.  This  led  to  frequent  incursions  against 
the  neighboring  islands  and  shores  of  Western  Europe  in 
the  lower  latitudes,  extending  even  to  the  Mediterranean 
and  along  its  coasts.  By  these  oft  repeated  adventures 
they  came  to  be  regarded  as  "Scourges,"  or  "Scanzia," 
[hence  "Scandinavia"],  as  history  represents  them,  all 
along  the  line  of  their  meanderings.  At  a  later  date 
these  incursions  were  made  inland,  until  the  principal 
part  of  the  continent  became  "infested"  by  them.  The 
hard  and  sterile  soil  and  the  rigors  of  the  northern  climate 
made  necessary  these  removals  and  new  settlements  from 
the  overgrowth  of  population  in  their  old  home.  Be  that 
as  it  may,  a  very  large  exodus  of  inhabitants  took  place 
from  what  came  to  be  known  as  Scandinavia,  and  all  por- 
tions of  Western  and  Southern  Europe  became  more  or 
less  the  scene  of  their  operations.  For  want  of  a  better 
name,  that  of  "Northmen"  was  given  to  them,  and  as 
they  came  to  make  their  appearance  at  different  points  of 
adventure,  they  were  known  as  "Goths"  and  "Vandals," 
"Kimbri,"  "Kelts,"  etc.,  names  of  derision  in  intention, 
but  more  worthily  esteemed  as  names  of  honor  for  their 
enterprise  and  real  merit. 


io  Paine    Genealogy. 

During  all  these  ages,  nothing  was  generally  known  of 
the  place  whence  all  these  "hordes"  came,  but  their  land 
was  a  terra  incognita  among  the  nations.  It  was  noticed 
that  these  people  ever  exhibited  a  remarkable  profusion 
of  amber,  worked  into  ornaments  of  various  kinds  which 
greatly  excited  the  curiosity  of  the  inhabitants  among 
whom  they  settled.  This  led  to  an  extensive  trade  with 
the  Northmen  in  the  places  of  their  new  settlement,  and  a 
consequent  desire  to  seek  out  and  become  acquainted  with 
the  country  which  sent  forth  such  quantities  of  rich  and 
rare  commerce. 

The  Phoenicians  had  early  engaged  in  it  largely  and 
made  frequent  ventures  in  that  direction,  reporting  gener- 
ally what  they  found  both  in  the  way  of  trade  and  in  re- 
lation to  the  various  characteristics  of  the  people,  whom 
they  represented  as  given  up  to  the  religion  of  Baal 
and  identical  with  the  various  races  of  barbarians.  But 
still  a  very  general  ignorance  prevailed  every-wherc  both 
with  reference  to  the  locality  and  character  of  the  people 
at  home,  who  were  thus  filling  Europe  with  their  hosts. 

After  centuries  of  this  kind  of  life,  the  government  of 
Marsilia,  the  modern  Marseilles,  in  the  year  350  IB.  C., 
sent  Pvtheas,  a  contemporary  of  Alexander  the  Great,  to 
inquire  "into  the  position  and  nature  of  the  Northern 
lands  from  which  the  Phoenicians  brought  away  tin  and 
amber  and  other  products,  which  they  could  not  obtain 
nearer  home."  .lie  executed  his  mission  by  visiting  the 
land  of  the  Northmen,  passing  through  England,  and 
making  himself  generally  acquainted  with  the  object  of 
his  journey.  He  made  a  report  of  his  discoveries,  in 
which  he  detailed  facts  showing  that  nearly  2300  years 
ago  these  people  had  already  secured  to  themselves  many 
of  the  useful  arts  and  comforts  of  life. 


Ipswich  Branch.  1 1 

After  Pytheas,  the  next  reliable  evidence  which  was  had 
of  the  character  of  the  Northmen  was  under  Alfred  the 
Great,  in  A.  D.  871,  being  1,200  years  after  Pytheas, 
when  two  travelers,  Wulfstan  and  Ohthere,  came  to  the 
King's  court  and  reported  their  journey.  In  the  mean- 
time, however,  these  Northmen  were  constantly  passing 
south,  and  making  their  homes  over  different  parts  of 
Europe  and  the  southern  coasts  of  the  Mediterranean. 

In  the  interim  between  these  two  visits,  the  great  Ro- 
man Empire  had  grown  up,  become  the  mistress  of  the 
world,  gone  into  decline,  become  utterly  subverted,  and 
passed  away.  The  Cassars  had  come  and  conquered  and 
died,  and  their  glory  been  extinguished.  Christ  had  come 
and  "established  His  kingdom"  in  the  far  East;  and,  fol- 
lowing the  track  of  Asiatic  emigration  and  outliving  the 
Roman  authority,  His  doctrines  had  reached  the  western 
shore  of  the  continent,  and  began  to  be  recognized  by  the 
people  of  that  region. 

Strange  as  it  may  seem,  during  all  the  period  of  Roman 
authority,  although  this  tide  of  emigration  from  the  north 
was  setting  so  strongly  across  its  dominions,  threatening, 
as  at  last  it  effected,  the  total  extinction  of  its  power,  yet 
the  government  seems  never  to  have  turned  its  attention 
to  the  subject,  or  sought  to  learn  whence  the  tide  came, 
or  what  might  be  its  final  future  result.  Like  its  corre- 
sponding tide  of  the  ocean,  they  quietly  saw  its  flow,  ac- 
quiesced in  its  operation,  and  succumbed  to  its  power, 
until  its  overflow  blotted  out  all  that  remained  of  possible 
defence  and  opposition.  The  Northmen  thus  became, 
every-where  in  Europe,  the  masters  of  the  situation,  fill- 
ing even  Italy  and  Rome  itself  with  its  emigrants,  and 
blotting  out  the  Roman  power  and  name  from  existence, 
save  as  they  had  established  themselves  in  history. 


1 2  Paine   Genealogy. 

We  are  not,  however,  to  suppose,  as  is  most  frequently 
done,  that  these  "incursions,"  as  they  are  more  generally 
called,  either  from  Asia  into  Europe,  or  from  Scandinavia 
into  the  more  southerly  portions  of  the  continent,  were  of 
an  unfriendly,  much  less  of  a  warlike  character.  We 
have  nowhere  any  account  of  any  pitched  battles  being 
fought,  or  of  sieges  planned  or  executed.  Occasional 
skirmishes  of  a  quasi  military  character  there  may  have 
been,  but  nothing  that  could  be  legitimately  styled  as 
"war"  is  to  be  found  in  their  long  history.  On  the  con- 
trary, they  were  of  a  peaceful  quality,  and  prosecuted 
under  no  pretence  of  invasion  as  hostiles  or  conquerors. 
The  stories  so  commonlv  told  of  their  overrunning  the 
countries,  and  subjecting  the  former  inhabitants  of  the 
Roman  Empire  to  their  dominion,  so  far  as  they  partake 
of  the  warlike  idea,  are  all  unreliable. 

Looking  back  from  our  present  standpoint,  we  are  apt 
to  view  the  work  of  ages  as  performed  in  a  day,  and  con- 
clude that  it  was  done  so  suddenly  only  by  force  of  arms 
of  contending  tribes  and  people  ;  but  quite  otherwise  is 
the  actual  truth.  These  Northmen  were  for  ages  and 
centuries  gathering  from  the  east,  and  for  other  ages 
dispersing  themselves  over  the  other  more  productive  and 
less  burdened  fields  of  the  continent  and  neighboring 
islands. 

The  history  of  those  days  was,  in  truth,  only  the  same 
which  has  been  repeating  itself  over  the  centuries  which 
have  since  elapsed  and  is  still  in  progress.  What  has 
happened  in  our  own  country  in  the  gradual  occupation 
of  its  vast  territory  by  the  inhabitants  of  other  nationalities, 
descendants,  indeed,  of  these  very  people  from  Asia  and 
Scandinavia,  is  a  good  illustration  and  proof  of  what  has 
now  been  said. 


Ipswich  Branch.  13 

The  settlement  of  America,  in  the  iyth  century,  and  its 
more  modern  history  in  the  same  line,  is  the  same  with 
that  of  the  periods  spoken  of.  Not  by  armies,  nor  indeed 
by  force,  but  by  peaceful  "incursions"  of  gradual  immi- 
gration, were  the  colonies  formed  all  along  the  great 
Atlantic,  from  the  rock  of  Plymouth  to  the  shores  of 
Carolina,  and  thence  inland,  until  all  the  original  thirteen 
states  were  formed.  But  still,  even  as  late  as  our  Revo- 
lution, the  vast  fields  of  Ohio,  Illinois  and  other  Western 
States  were  vacant  and  uninhabited,  save  as  the  hunting 
grounds  and  homes  of  the  aborigines,  or  cared  for  only 
by  the  wild  beasts  of  the  forests  and  the  prairies.  To  the 
later  clays  of  the  I9th  century  was  it  left  to  make  "incur- 
sions" into  these  regions  and  reduce  them  to  the  wants  of 
civilized  life.  Thus  "the  West."  like  Europe,  became 
the  victim  of  "invasion"  and  "conquest,"  and  the  conse- 
quent abode  of  active  citizenship. 

To  a  still  later  day,  that  of  our  own  time,  has  it  been 
left  to  "subjugate"  the  broad  fields  of  the  Pacific  coast 
and  the  intermediate  territory,  up  to  the  line  of  the  West- 
ern border.  Texas.  California  and  Oregon,  Colorado. 
Arizona  and  the  Great  Plains,  covering  broader  fields  than 
Northmen  ever  found  in  Europe,  have  in  our  day  been 
"invaded"  and  taken  possession  of  by  Eastern  "hordes" 
of  emigrants  and  made  subservient  to  the  uses  of  man  ; 
and  the  great  work  is  still  going  on.  The  exodus  of  the 
black  man  into  these  regions,  like  his  ancestors  of  the 
Hamite  invasion,  is  likely  to  meet  the  same  result  in  his 
new  home,  and  Kansas,  perhaps,  repeat  the  history  of 
Africa. 

If  language  does  not  vary  we  may  in  fancy  look  back 
to  our  times  from  the  standpoint  of  ages  yet  to  be.  and 
there  read  of  the  wonderful  "incursions  of  the  Yankees" 


14  Paine   Genealogy. 

in  first  possessing  themselves  of  the  territory  of  New 
England,  and  then  by  successive  waves  of  adventure  and 
conquest  making  themselves  masters  of  all  the  land  em- 
braced within  the  broad  boundaries  of  the  two  oceans. 
As  in  our  days  the  Choctaws  and  Cherokees,  Sioux  and 
Cheyenes,  and  other  tribes  have  given  way  to  the  march 
of  civilization,  so  in  the  other  case,  the  Laps  and  Fins 
and  other  aboriginal  races  gave  way  to  the  peaceful  march 
of  a  higher  life.  As  in  our  case  so  in  this,  occasional 
conflicts  have  taken  place  and  the  sound  of  war  has  been 
heard,  but  these  in  both  cases  are  but  the  mere  attendants 
upon  the  greater  work,  accidental  events,  happening  like 
the  occasional  stroke  of  lightning,  or  the  flooding  of  a 
farm,  or  the  burning  of  a  camp  or  cottage  in  the  vast 
work  of  peopling  a  continent. 


Ipswich  Branch. 


CHAPTER    III. 

Norman    Genealogy. 

BY  this  general  exodus  of  the  Scandinavians  from  their 
northern  home  into  the  more  southerly  parts  of 
Europe  through  the  series  of  centuries,  as  has  now  been 
described,  every  part  of  Western  Europe  was  more  or  less 
affected.  In  the  year  885,  A.  D.,  bodies  of  them  from 
Norway,  went  up  the  Seine  even  to  Paris,  where  Odo 
did  great  things  in  resisting  them  and  thereby  obtained 
the  title  of  "King  of  the  West  Franks."  They  withdrew 
and  made  a  settlement  at  the  mouth  of  that  river,  at  what 
was  afterwards  known  as  Rouen.  This  rapidly  increased 
in  strength  and  numbers  under  Rolf  or  Rollo,  their  chief, 
who  in  913  or  918,  made  a  treaty  with  Charles  the  Sim- 
ple, brother  and  successor  of  Odo,  by  which  the  colony 
had  its  title  confirmed  to  a  large  tract  of  territory  at  that 
point,  whereby,  says  Hallam,  "the  kingdom  was  at  once 
.relieved  from  a  terrible  enemy  and  strengthened  by  a  race 
of  hardy  colonists."  Rollo  soon  after  became  a  convert 
to  the  Christian  religion,  and  was  baptized  and  learned 
the  French  language,  and  his  example  being  followed  by 
the  people  of  the  villages,  that  religion  came  to  be  well 
established.  They  assumed  the  name  of  Normans  instead 
of  Northmen,  and  "Normandy"  was  adopted  as  their  fu- 
ture cognomen.  Rollo  assumed  the  title  of  duke  and  was 
thenceforth  recognized  as  the  "Duke  of  Normandy,"  and 
he  and  his  successors  ranked  as  among  the  most  powerful 
princes  of  that  part  of  the  whole  country.  The  colony 


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thus  became  an  independent  sovereignty  and  soon  as- 
sumed an  importance  unequaled  among  the  states  of  Eu- 
rope. Its  limits  gradually  extended,  and  at  one  time 
reached  to  the  gates  of  Paris.  Its  dukes  maintained  high 
character  for  skill  and  bravery  until  about  the  middle  of 
the  nth  century,  when  William  was  made  chief,  and 
added  Maine  to  his  dukedom.  Its  population,  too.  had 
also  been  rapidly  enlarged  by  constant  immigrations,  until 
overstocked,  it  began,  like  its  predecessors,  to  send  oft* 
colonies  to  other  parts  still  further  south.  Italy  and  .Sicily 
were  especiallv  the  recipients  of  these  emigrants,  and  to 
such  an  extent  that  the  character  of  the  people  there  be- 
came generally  affected  by  their  inhabitancy.  A  treaty 
was  made  with  Pope  Leo  IX.,  in  1053,  which  cemented 
a  close  and  lasting  alliance  between  the  two  peoples. 

The  Channel  Islands,  especially  that  of  Jersey,  were 
also  recipients  of  the  same  Norman  emigration  and  very 
early  became  identified  as  a  part  of  the  same  state.  By 
the  treaty  with  Charles  the  Simple  it  was  donated  to 
Duke  Rollo  and  afterwards  passed  to  the  English  Crown 
under  William  the  Conqueror.  It  has  ever  since  main- 
tained its  distinctive  Norman  character,  evidenced  not 
only  by  its  dialects,  but  also  by  its  legal  tenures,  its  feudal 
customs  and  its  grand  old  castle;  these  all  betraying,  as 
writes  a  modern  traveler,  "the  unmixed  Norman  blood 
that  still  fills  their  veins." 

It  was  under  such  a  state  of  things  that  William  suc- 
ceeded to  the  dukedom  as  the  heir  of  his  father  Robert, 
whose  bravery  he  also  inherited  and  to  whose  ambition 
he  added  that  of  his  own  early  years.  Firmly  seated  in 
authority  at  home,  he  turned  his  attention  to  the  prose- 
cution of  his  claim  to  the  government  of  England,  and 
under  the  pretence  of  right  to  iU  crown,  he,  in  1056, 


Ipswich  Branch.  17 

crossed  the  channel  with  his  army.  By  the  battle  of 
Hastings  he  secured  a  foothold  of  authority,  which  rapidly 
led  to  the  consummation  of  his  scheme  of  being  universally 
recognized  as  king  under  the  now  familiar  name  of 
"William  the  Conqueror."  Throned  in  power,  he  par- 
celled out  the  lands  of  the  dominion  among  his  soldiers 
and  followers,  and  thus  turned  the  tide  of  Norman  emi- 
gration across  the  channel.  The  Norman  blood  and  spirit 
thus  became  generally  diffused  throughout  the  island,  and 
gave  its  character  to  the  people  of  that  whole  country,  a 
character  for  courage  and  enterprise,  which  that  nation 
has  ever  since  maintained  both  at  home  and  abroad,  as  the 
great  civili/er  of  mankind  and  promoter  of  the  race  in  new 
homes  and  new  industries. 

William  died  in  1087.  leaving  his  crown  to  his  younger 
son.  William  Rufus.  and  his  Dukedom  to  his  eldest  son, 
Robert.  Each  entered  upon  his  distinct  authority,  and 
the  two  countries  became  each  an  independent  power. 

The  excitement  of  the  First  Crusade  arose  soon  after- 
wards, to  redeem  the  Holy  Places  from  the  hands  of 
Infidels.  Robert  caught  the  infection,  and  turning  his 
back  upon  his  Ducal  possession,  which  he  pledged  to  his 
brother  for  a  loan  of  £6,666  to  carry  on  his  invasion,  vol- 
unteered with  others,  at  the  call  of  the  Pope,  to  march  to 
Jerusalem.  This  was  in  1099,  when  large  bodies  of 
Normans  from  their  native  state  and  from  England,  Italv 
and  Sicily,  eagerly  joined  in  the  magnificent  scheme. 
Their  march  was  a  victorious  one,  resulting  in  the  con- 
quest of  Jerusalem  and  possession  of  its  sacred  places. 
Inflated  with  glory.  Robert  returned,  but  only,  as  it  were, 
to  attain  an  ignominious  death  in  durance  at  Cardiff. 

The  particular  interest  connected  writh  the  history  now 
produced,  consists  in  the  fact  that  all  families  of  "Paine" 

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1 8  Paine   Genealogy. 

(however  variously  the  name  inav  be  spelled)  are  of  Nor- 
man descent  or  extraction — and  that,  however  it  may  be 
with  other  families  than  that  of  the  Ipswich  Branch,  the 
ancestor  of  the  latter  was  involved  in  the  crusade  to  the 
Holy  Land,  where  he  acquired  fame  and  the  title  to 
knighthood  by  his  prowess  and  courage. 


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CHAPTER    IV. 
The  Family  Patronymic. 

HAVING  in  the  last  chapter  traced  the  history  of  the 
Norman  race  from  its  genesis  in  Persia  through 
its  various  exodus  to  Scandinavia,  and  thence  to  Normandv 
and  Great  Britain,  the  subject  now  takes  naturally  a  more 
limited  scope.  The  patronymic  of  the  family  now  in 
question,  the  surname  of  "Paine  "  in  its  various  forms  of 
spelling,  proves  beyond  a  doubt  its  direct  Norman  origin 
or  birth.  In  Bardsley's  "History  of  English  Surnames," 
a  minute  history  of  the  name  is  given,  and  to  it  we  are 
mainly  indebted  for  the  following  account  of  its  origin. 

Allusion  has  already  been  made,  in  the  previous  chap- 
ter, to  the  fact  that  Rollo  or  Rolf,  in  the  9th  century, 
having  firmly  established  himself  in  power  as  Duke  of 
Normandv.  became  a  convert  to  the  Christian  religion,' 
and  that  with  his  encouragement  and  support  the  doctrines 
had  become  generally  received  in  the  villages  of  his 
Dukedom.  The  people  of  the  country,  however,  outside 
of  the  larger  places,  still  held  very  generally  to  their 
former  creeds,  and  resisted  the  new  innovation.  So  gen- 
erally was  this  the  case,  that  to  be  a  "countryman,"  came 
to  be  merely  another  name  for  an  "unbeliever,"  so  that 
the  same  word  "pagan us"  came  to  represent,  or  express, 
the  two-fold  meaning  of  both.  Hence  the  word,  originallv 
and  solely  meaning  a  dweller  in  the  country  as  distin- 
guished from  one  in  the  city,  or  large  town,  came  to  be 
regarded  as  a  repi'oach,  as  expressive  of  the  idea  of  an 


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enemy  of  the  Christian  religion,  or.  literally  translated, 
a  ••pagan."  In  the  same  way  the  two  words  ••peasant" 
and  "pagan,"  both  from  the  same  root  as  above  given, 
came  to  be  generally  used  as  expressive  of  the  same 
idea,  a  liver  in  the  country  and  a  disbeliever.  This  was 
jxrculiar  to  Normandy,  where  alone  the  perversion  existed. 
The  name,  coming  thus  to  be  generally  adopted,  gradually 
invaded  the  larger  places  and  soon  came  to  be  applied 
to  all  who  refused  to  receive  baptism  after  Rollo  became 
a  convert. 

When  William  the  Conqueror  passed  over  to  England, 
a  large  number  of  this  class  of  citizens  went  with  him. 
or  soon  followed,  and  thus  the  term  came  to  be  very 
generally  spread  over  the  island.  At  about  the  same 
time  the  habit  became  prevalent  of  using  surnames  to 
indicate  the  unity  or  identity  of  family  connections,  and 
hence  the  word  was  very  naturally  adopted  for  that  pur- 
pose and  necessarily  became  one  of  the  most  common 
and  familiar,  lasting  long  after  its  original  significance 
had  ceased.  The  name  gradually  changed  its  form  from 
Pajjamis  to  Pagan.  Pa  gen.  Paven.  Payne  and  Paine,  as 

on  »  . 

also  Payson  and  Pyson  and  others,  all  of  which  were 
merely  different  forms  of  the  same  appellation.  In  Domes- 
dav.  compiled  in  1086.  the  name  was  uniformly  written 
••Pagen."  And  not  only  did  the  name  thus  become  a 
favorite  and  familiar  one  in  England  and  Normandy,  but 
also  wherever  else  the  Norman  exodus  pervaded.  In  the 
Isle  of  Jersey,  before  mentioned,  an  island  embraced 
within  the  same  treaty  that  secured  the  independence  of 
Normandy  from  West  Gaul,  the  name  has  ever  been  most 
common,  as  also  in  Italy  to  which  so  many  Normans 
emigrated,  it  there  assuming  the  form  of  ••Paganini"  or 
••Pagani." 


Ipswich    Branch.  21 

Such  being1  the  derivation  of  the  name,  it  readily  fol- 
lows that  it  by  no  means  indicates  any  personal  relation- 
ship between  those  who  bear  it,  but  only  a  common 
Norman  descent.  In  connection  with  this  name.  Bardsley 
remarks  that  "at  the  close  of  the  Norman  dynasty,  it  had 
threatened  to  become  one  of  the  most  familiar  appella- 
tions in  England,  and  thus  while  in  our  dictionaries 
•pagan'  still  represents  a  state  of  heathenism,  in  our 
directories  it  has  long  been  converted  to  the  purposes  of 
Christianity  and  become  at  the  baptismal  font  a  Christian 
name." 


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CHAPTER    V . 
Donicsdav  and  Pagcn. 

WHEN  William  the  Conqueror  became  fully  seated 
in  power,  as  has  been  already  stated,  he  divided 
the  lands  of  his  kingdom  largely  among  his  soldiers  and 
followers  from  his  native  state.  Hume  relates  that  "he 
did  this,  with  few  exceptions,  into  baronies  and  then  con- 
ferred them,  with  the  reservation  of  stated  services  and 
payments,  on  the  most  considerable  of  his  adventurers. 
These  great  barons  who  held  immediately  of  the  Crown 
shared  out  a  great  part  of  their  lands  to  other  foreigners 
who  were  denominated  knights  and  vassals,  and  who  paid 
their  lord  the  same  duty  and  submission  in  peace  and  war 
which  he  himself  owed  to  his  Sovereign." 

Previous  to  the  Conquest,  in  the  reign  of  Edward  the 
Confessor,  himself  the  son  of  a  Norman  mother,  many 
Normans,  by  his  encouragement,  had  settled  in  England, 
who  readily  gave  to  the  Conqueror  their  adhesion  and 
aid.  These,  too,  he  of  course  took  into  his  especial  favor 
and  patronage. 

After  this  general  division,  he  caused  an  inventory  and 
appraisal  of  the  whole  kingdom  to  be  made,  taking  ac- 
count not  only  of  the  names  of  the  parties  occupant,  but 
also  of  all  their  estates  with  the  names  of  the  dispos- 
sessed owners  and  the  higher  chiefs  or  barons  under  whom 
they  held.  These  reports  made  by  different  commission- 
cm,  appointed  in  dillerent  counties,  were  all  reduced  to 
order  and  compiled  under  the  name,  so  well  known 


Ipswich  Branch.  23 

through  the  centuries  since,  of  ;'TiiE  DOMKSDAY."  The 
original  compilation  was  in  1086,  A.  D.,  and  has  been 
ever  since  preserved  with  all  the  care  of  Holy  Writ,  and 
copies  of  it  are  now  to  be  found  in  some  of  our  largest 
libraries  in  fac-simile  print,  or*  Zincotype,  though  no 
English  translation  of  it  has  ever  yet  been  published. 

A  short  study  of  its  forms,  however,  makes  us  familiar 
with  its  unique  contents,  and  gives  us  most  valuable  in- 
formation relative  to  the  various  individuals  which  at  that 
time  formed  a  part  of  the  great  English  people.  This 
was  especially  true  of  all  Norman  families  who,  by  the 
action  of  the  King  as  already  described,  came  to  occupy 
the  most  prominent  positions  in  all  parts  of  the  kingdom. 
The  following  translation  of  some  of  the  entries  may  be 
of  interest  to  the  reader  as  a  sample  of  the  whole  work, 
the  name  of  the  former,  or  expelled  owner,  being  inserted 
as  well  as  that  of  the  present  occupant : 

"Thomas  de  Paine  occupies  two  ox  ploughings  which 
belonged  to  Hugo  Brown  and  pays  in  per  annum  two 
portions  of  wheat  and  two  tribute  portions  on  horned 
cattle." 

This  Thomas  is  reported  as  resident  of  "Highhington- 
shire,"  modern  Huntingdonshire.  In  "Liecestershire," 
modern  Leicestershire,  are  other  entries  of  similar  char- 
acter, as  for  instance  :  "Pagen  holds  of  William  Peverell," 
&c.  In  Hampshire, or  "Hants,"  is  another,  ''Pagen  holds 
of  the  KING  i  Hide,  i  Yardland  in  Buckbolt,  and  it  was 
held  in  parcenary  by  Sawin  and  assessed  at  5  yardlands. 
but  it  is  now  in  the  Forest.  *  *  It  was  worth  100.?." 
The  land  was  part  of  that  taken  by  the  King  to  form  his 
New  Forest. 

These  are  only  a  few  of  the  large  number  of  instances 
contained  in  ••  Dowestfav"  showing  the  holding  bv  Pasfen 


24  Paine    GciicaJogy. 

( Payne)  in  various  parts  of  England  at  the  time  when 
the  examination  and  inventory  were  made.  A  fuller  inves- 
tigation leads  to  some  very  interesting  results  in  relation 
to  the  family  now  traced.  It  has  already  been  remarked 
in  the  extract  from  Hume,  that  the  lands  thus  parcelled 
out  by  the  King  were  generally  "divided  into  baronies, 
and  conferred  on  the  most  considerable  of  his  adventurers." 
Among  these  the  records  show  that  this  "Pagen"  who 
in  one  of  the  extracts  above  given,  is  related  to  hold 
"of  the  King,"  and  whose  land  is  "now  in  the  Forest." 
was  ranked  as  one.  As  a  consequence,  his  name  is  re- 
ported as  holder  of  lands  either  "of  the  King,"  or  others, 
in  at  least  sixteen  different  counties,  and  to  the  number  of 
thirty-eight  or  more  holdings  in  all,  and  the  significant 
remark  is  added  by  the  commissioner  of  returns,  that  "he 
could  go  whithersoever  he  would."  These  holdings  were 
so  located  in  different  counties,  that  leaving  Hants  or 
Hampshire  by  the  Isle  of  Wight,  where  the  New  Forest 
was  located,  he  could  travel  north  to  "the  Wash"  on  the 
North  Sea  ;  thence  west  across  the  island  to  the  Irish  Sea  : 
thence  south  to  the  Bristol  Channel ;  thence  east  to  the 
place  of  starting,  and  at  every  step  be  in  a  county  where 
he  owned  land,  and  consequently  had  right  of  protection. 
This  was  his  peculiar  baronial  privilege  arising  from  his 
rank  and  probable  connection  with  the  King.  He  had 
settled  in  England  from  Normandy  before  the  Conquest, 
as  is  plainly  evidenced  by  the  record,  and  was  consequently 
there  to  share  with  the  Conqueror  the  brunt  of  battle  and 
the  crown  of  success.  He  died  about  the  same  time  that 
Domesday  was  compiled  in  1086.  leaving  Edmund  his 
eldest  son  and  heir  to  inherit  his  immense  estate  and  dig- 
nities, as  well  as  his  favor  with  the  King. 


Ipswich  Branch.  25 

When  the  King  made  the  great  sacrifice  of  private 
interests  by  establishing  his  "'New  Forest"  of  thirty 
miles  extent,  absorbing  farms,  dwellings  and  churches  to 
gratify  his  pleasure,  this  Pagen's  name  is  often  found  in 
the  roll  of  lands  taken  ;  "Lands  now  in  the  Forest."  and 
for  these  he  had  other  lands  assigned  to  him  in  other 
localities. 

From  these  various  references  and  entries,  it  would 
seem  that  this  same  Pagen  was,  according  to  Hume's 
record,  one  of  the  barons  upon  whom  the  Conqueror 
bestowed  his  favors  as  among  "the  most  considerable 
adventurers."  And  of  so  marked  a  character  was  his 
favor  to  the  family,  that  his  "son  Edmund"  wras  also  made 
to  share  his  bounty  and  enjoy  his  baronial  privileges.  The 
facts  now  related  are  very  important,  as  intimately  con- 
nected with  other  particulars  in  the  subsequent  history  of 
the  family. 

On  this  broad  Norman  plateau  and  its  various  fields  as 
now  described,  every  family  of  "Paine"  may  find  his  an- 
cestral home,  if  only  he  is  able  to  trace  it  out.  The  work 
is  of  course  difficult,  if  not  impossible,  the  seeker  being 
obliged  to  span  the  space  of  eight  centuries. 

And  just  here  it  is  very  appropriate  to  remark,  that  all 
efforts  to  define  or  trace  any  particular  family  lineage,  of 
the  class  now  discussed,  to  an  earlier  date  than  that  now 
given,  when  the  Normans  possessed  themselves  of  English 
soil,  are  utterly  vain  and  hopeless.  No  such  line  is  prac- 
ticably traceable  to  any  earlier  period  of  time.  All  families 
of  Scandinavian,  Norman,  Saxon  and  Celtic  descent  may 
regard  themselyes  as  forever  and  irretrievably  shut  out 
from  all  earlier  knowledge  of  their  especial  ancestry.  Prior 
to  that  time,  or  a  generation  earlier,  surnames  had  not  been 
adopted,  and  hence  no  means  of  identification  existed  to 


26  Paine   Genealogy. 

distinguish  one  line  of  ancestry,  or.  indeed,  one  family 
from  another,  beyond  any  particular  generation  then 
alive.  Neither  had  Coats  of  Arms  been  then  invented 
which,  more  truly  than  any  other  species  of  evidence,  goes 
to  establish  identity  of  lineage,  when  other  proof  is  lack- 
ing. Even  British  Royalty,  in  all  its  pride  of  ancestry,  is 
obliged,  in  its  backward  march  for  an  origin,  to  stop  short 
with  the  Conqueror,  whose  very  name  of  "William," 
(helmet  bearer)  had  but  just  then  been  invented.  To  say 
nothing  of  his  doubtful  parentage,  not  a  single  previous 
generation  of  ancestry  can  be  safely  defined  as  a  basis  of 
his  lineage. 

We  have,  it  is  true,  mythical  accounts  of  the  Sagas  and 
"Runic  Rhymes"  of  Scandinavia,  and  we  read  howOssian 
sung  on  the  Scottish  Highlands  of  the  early  days,  but  in 
spite  of  all  these,  the  truth  has  to  be  confessed,  that  be- 
hind the  thick  veil  which  separated  Scandinavia  from  South- 
ern Europe,  all  is  darkness  and  night :  and  as  separate 
families  and  nations  come  out  thence  into  the  open  day  of 
history,  they  are  utterly  undistinguishable  from  each  other 
without  any  knowledge  of  their  descent  more  than  that 
which  is  enjoyed  of  the  birds  and  beasts  of  the  forest. 

And  indeed,  could  it  be  otherwise,  the  knowledge  at- 
tainable, by  any  one.  of  his  ancestry,  behind  that  veil, 
would  aHbrd  but  little  satisfaction  to  the  seeker,  inasmuch 
as  the  inevitable  result  would  be  to  find  his  progenitors 
for  centuries  there  a  part  only  of  a  crude  mass  of  individ- 
uals, almost  if  not  quite  undistinguishable  among  them- 
selves, people  of  little  culture,  and  all  alike  tillers  of  the 
soil  for  a  mere  subsistence,  substantially  without  govern- 
ment or  refinement,  or  perhaps,  any  other  desirable 
quality. 


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CHAPTER     VI. 

The    Crusades  and  Hugh  de  Pay  en. 

FOLLOWING  close  upon  the  Norman  conquest  of 
England,  in  the  latter  part  of  the  eleventh  century, 
the  Crusades  began  to  rage,  as  has  heen  already  related. 
The  history  of  the  first,  which  was  composed  largely 
of  Normans  under  the  leadership  of  Robert.  Duke  of 
Normandy,  and  which  commenced  its  march  in  the 
last  year  of  that  century,  has  a  peculiar  importance  to 
the  Paine  race.  Without  any  more  particular  rehearsal 
of  the  events  which  occurred  in  connection  with  it,  than 
that  it  was  successful  in  wresting  the  Holy  Places  from 
the  hands  of  Infidels,  the  following  portion  of  its  history 
is  of  great  interest. 

At  the  termination  of  the  Crusade  now  spoken  of. 
the  celebrated  Hugh  de  Payen  remained  behind  for  the 
purpose  of  more  surely  securing  its  grand  results.  For 
long  months  he  acted  the  part  of  guide,  with  others,  for 
all  such  pilgrims  as  might  need  aid  and  conduct  to  their 
journey's  end.  and  more  particularly  from  the  crossing  of 
Jordan  to  the  city  of  Jerusalem.  For  this  purpose  he 
organized  a  force  adapted  to  the  occasion  and  diligently 
attended  to  the  work.  In  company  with  Godfrey  de  St. 
Omer,  he  instituted  an  order  known  as  the  ''Templars  of 
the  Cross,"  the  sole  object  of  which  was  to  further  the 
great  objects  of  the  Crusaders'  mission  by  protecting  the 
Holy  Places  and  rendering  safe  the  journey  of  all  pilgrims 
to  the  Holy  Shrine.  The  original  organization  embraced 
onlv  seven  others  besides  themselves.  They  were  both 


zS  Paine   Genealogy. 

poor,  but  their  undertaking  was  patronized  by  the  King  of 
Jerusalem,  Baldwin  II..  who  not  only  gave  them  his 
countenance,  but  assigned  to  them  their  lodgings  in  his 
palace,  and  made  them  the  recipients  of  his  personal  favor 
and  society.  Of  their  poverty  they  made  no  secret,  but 
emblazoned  it  on  their  seal  by  adopting  as  a  device  "a 
horse  with  two  riders." 

Starting  from  this  small  beginning,  the  order  soon 
began  to  extend  its  limits  and  its  power,  until  it  came  to 
be  the  most  powerful  and  opulent  of  all  organizations  then 
probably  existing  in  the  world,  controlling  the  fate  of 
nations,  and  even  demanding  and  receiving  from  the  Pope 
an  acknowledgement  of  its  asserted  rights.  Its  original  or- 
ganization was  in  A.  D.  1118,  and  continued  to  exist  until 
1312,  nearly  two  centuries,  when,  after  five  or  six  years 
of  violent  action,  Philip  the  Fair  of  France,  and  Pope 
Clement  V.  succeeded  in  abolishing  it  and  appropriating 
its  immense  possessions  to  the  use  of  the  various  sover- 
eigns of  the  different  nations  where  they  were  deposited. 
In  Portugal,  the  order  still  exists  under  the  name  of  the 
"Knights  of  Christ."  The  pledge  of  every  Templar 
bound  him  to  defend  at  the  peril  of  his  life,  the  mysteries 
of  the  Christian  faith,  to  perform  military  service  beyond 
the  seas  whenever  called  upon  to  do  so,  and  ''never  to  flv 
before  three  Infidels  even  when  alone."  During  all  these 
ages  while  the  order  had  life,  and  ever  since,  the  two 
original  founders  have  been  celebrated  for  their  work  as 
it*  originators  and  patrons,  and  during  its  continuance, 
even  after  their  death,  as  its  peculiar  protectors  and  guar- 
dians. 

Sir  Walter  Scott,  in  Ivanhoe.  Vol.  II.,  Chapter  XII., 
put  into  the  mouth  of  the  (irand  Master,  answering  Con- 
rade.  while  dilating  on  the  evils  prevailing  even  among 
the  Templars  : 


Ipswich  Branch.  29 

"I  shame  to  speak,  I  shame  to  think  of  the  corruptions 
which  have  rushed  in  upon  us  even  like  a  flood.  The 
souls  of  our  pure  founders,  the  spirits  of  Hugh  de  Payen 
and  Godfrey  de  St.  Omer,  and  of  the  Blessed  Seven  who 
first  joined  in  dedicating  their  lives  to  the  service  of  the 
Temple,  are  disturbed  even  in  the  enjoyment  of  Paradise 
itself.  I  have  seen  them.  Conrade,  in  the  visions  of  the 
night,  their  sainted  eyes  shed  tears  for  the  sins  and  follies 
of  their  brethren,  and  for  the  foul  and  shameful  luxury  in 
which  they  wallow.  'Beaumanoir,  they  say,  thou  sluin- 
berest.  Awake  !  There  is  a  stain  in  the  fabric  of  the 
Temple  deep  and  foul  as  that  left  by  the  streaks  of  leprosy 
on  the  walls  of  the  infected  houses  of  old.  *  *  Beau- 
manoir, thou  sleepest !  Up  and  avenge  our  cause  !  Slay 
the  sinners,  male  and  female  !  Take  to  thee  the  brand  of 
Phineas  ! '  The  vision  fled.  Conrade.  but  as  I  awaked  I 
could  still  hear  the  clank  of  their  mail  and  see  the  waving 
of  their  white  mantles." 

Proctor  in  his  "History  of  the  Crusades"  (p.  202)  gives 
also  an  interesting  account  of  the  order,  and  of  Payen's 
participation  in  its  founding. 

Who  Hugh  de  Payen  was.  genealogically,  or  to  what 
line  he  belonged,  of  the  numerous  families  now  existing, 
is  a  matter  of  much  interest.  That  he  was  a  Norman  is 
very  clear,  for  at  that  early  day  the  name  had  not  gone 
beyond  the  field  of  its  orgin,  for  only  a  single  generation, 
or  two.  had  then  passed  since  surnames  had  been  first 
adopted.  His  name,  too.  indicates  that  he  was  the  son 
of  a  father  who  bore  the  same  name,  and  who  lived  nec- 
essarily during  the  war  and  reign  of  the  Conqueror.  He 
was  too.  as  a  Norman,  in  the  Crusade,  one  of  the  soldiers 
or  followers  of  Robert  the  Duke.  The  success  and  sud- 
denness with  which  he  entered  upon  his  great  work 
and  organixed  the  order  and  advanced  its  cause,  show 
most  conclusivelv  that  he  must  have  had  what  is  often 


30  Paine    Genealogy. 

spoken  of  as  a  "good  start"  in  life.  A  footman's,  or 
private's  position  in  an  army  is  ever  a  place  not  only  of 
difficulty,  but  of  impossibility,  from  which  to  arise  at  once 
to  eminence  or  favor.  In  order  to  do  this  he  must  have 
had  the  prestige  of  noble  birth,  or  other  extraneous  ad- 
vantages, as  well  as  of  personal  merit,  to  give  him  such 
an  impetus  as  he  actually  enjoyed.  Thus,  and  thus  only, 
could  he  have  attained  so  suddenly  the  high  pinnacle  of 
fame  and  favor  to  which  he  arrived.  This  conclusion  .is 
supported  by  the  facts  already  stated  with  reference  to  his 
favor  with  Baldwin  II..  King  of  Jerusalem,  who  gave 
him  lodgings  in  his  palace  and  the  prestige  of  his  high 
office. 

From  the  readings  of  Domesday  we  have  seen  that 
Pagen.  or  Pavcn.  was  one  of  William  the  Conqueror's 
chief  barons,  on  whom  he  especially  bestowed  his  favors: 
and  Robert  the  Duke,  under  whom  Hugh  went  to  the 
Crusades,  was  the  son  of  the  Conqueror,  thus  placing  the 
two  sons  (if  sons  they  were)  in  direct  communication  of 
friendship  with  each  other.  The  conclusion  is  at  least 
very  natural  and  certainly  very  probable,  that  Hugh  de 
Pa  yen  (the  son  of  Payen)  was  really  the  son  of  him  of 
Domesday.  Edmund  being  his  oldest  son  and  heir.  That 
he  was  poor  though  thus  the  son  of  a  rich  father,  is 
readily  explainable  by  the  fact  that  the  then  prevailing 
law  of  primogeniture  gave  the  whole  inheritance  to  the 
oldest  son  and  left  the  younger  poor,  a  fact  of  so  much 
importance  that  it  led  in  the  days  of  heraldry  to  the  adop- 
tion of  a  particular  feature  on  the  Coat  of  Arms  to  express 
it.  This  feature  was  the  placing  on  the  shield  a  Martlet '. 
or  footless  bird,  to  indicate  that  the  party  had  no  land  to 
stand  on.  and  hence  no  use  for  feet. 


Ipswich    Branch.  31 

One  of  the  extracts  from   Domesday  is  the  following : 
'•Edmund,  the  son  of  Pagen,    holds  of  the  King,  and 
Hugh  holds  of  him." 

That  this  Hugh  thus  spoken  of  was  Hugh  de  Payen 
cannot  certainly  be  determined,  but  the  fact  that  his  sur- 
name is  not  given,  but  simply  his  Christian  name,  rather 
implies  that  his  surname  \vas  the  same  with  his  under 
whom  he  held,  and  who  is  related  as  being  ;'the  son  of 
Pagen."  The  conclusion  can  hardly  be  resisted  that  the 
great  Crusader  was  the  son  of  him  on  whom  King  William 
so  abundantly  showered  his  favors,  and  that  it  wras  this 
favor  with  King  William  which  opened  the  palace  doors 
of  King  Baldwin  at  Jerusalem,  and  gave  to  the  poor  son 
a  home  and  the  prestige  of  his  influence  and  his  power 
as  before  related. 

The  presumed  ages  of  the  different  parties  at  the  time 
makes  this  conclusion  all  very  probable.  The  above  ex- 
tract was  written  in  1086  when  Domesday  was  com- 
piled, which  was  13  years  before  the  Crusade.  At  or 
about  that  time  Pagen  died.  If  he  died  at  the  age  of  60 
in  that  year,  and  the  average  of  human  life  be  applied  in 
this  case,  giving  33  years  as  the  average  of  a  generation. 
Hugh  would  be  27  years  old  at  the  time  spoken  of,  which 
would  make  him,  say  40  years  old  at  the  Crusade,  and  59 
at  the  time  of  the  Templar  formation  in  1 1 18,  thus  show- 
ing the  naturalness  of  the  hypothesis  we  are  making. 

A  continuation  of  this  subject  more  appropriately  fol- 
lows the  next  chapter. 


3  a  2\iine   GcneaJogy. 


C  II  A  P  T  E  R     VII. 

Coats  of  A i- ins. 

"TT^EVV  subjects  connected  with  the  early  history  of  any 
JL  family  has  more  interest  than  that  of  the  Coat  of 
Anns,  adopted  by  its  early  founders.  This  not  only  tells 
of  the  general  character  or  specific  virtues  of  the  assumer 
or  his  progenitor,  but  furnishes  the  best  and  most  reliable 
evidence  of  family  identity,  especially  where  direct  and 
positive  means  of  knowledge  are  wanting.  Like  the  bea- 
con light  at  sea  it  tells  to  the  far  ort*  vovager.  despite  all 
intervening  space  and  objects,  the  certainty  of  his  course 
and  the  identity  of  his  position.  Further  than  this,  it 
artbrds  a  clear  and  often  conclusive  proof  of  the  most  im- 
portant facts  in  the  history  and  character  of  the  lineage. 

An  eminent  writer  on  the  subject  uses  the  following 
language  with  reference  to  that  class  whose  Coats  of  Arms 
bear  evidence  of  service  in  the  Holy  Wars  : 

"The  Croisades.  so  called  from  the  little  crosses  which 
those  who  undertook  the  expedition  to  the  Holy  Land 
against  the  Infidels,  received  from  the  hands  of  the  bish- 
ops and  priests  and  sewed  on  their  garments,  likewise 
gave  occasion  not  only  to  the  bearing  of  several  new 
figures  till  then  unknown  in  arms,  as  bezants,  martlets, 
escallops,  alerions.  crosses,  etc..  but  also  improved  the 
mode  and  greatly  augmented  the  number  and  variety  of 
armories.  The  glory  which,  from  the  expedition,  re- 
sulted to  those  who  bravely  risked  their  lives  and  fortunes 
in  the  defense  of  the  Christian  religion  brought  these  arms 
which  had  been  worn  on  the  occasions  into  esteem  .so 
that  the  assumers>  when  returned  from  the  Holy  War.  not 


Ipswich  Branch.  33 

only  continued  during  their  lives  the  use  of  such  arms  as 
they  had  assumed,  but  their  issue  did  the  same,  making 
them  the  hereditary  gentilian  marks  of  their  family  and 
priding  themselves  in  exhibiting  and  perpetuating  such 
certain  proof  of  the  purity,  virtue  and  valor  of  their 
parents." 

The  pertinency  of  our  author's  remarks  will  be  seen 
when  applied  to  families  which  have,  among  their  heir- 
looms, this  interesting  and  valuable  acquisition. 
Family  Coat  of  Arms. 

The  Coat  of  Arms  of  the  family  in  question  is  that 
which. in  works  of  heraldry  is  known  as  "The  Arms  of 
Payne  of  Market  Bosworth,  County  of  Leicester  and  of 
the  County  of  vSuttblk."  The  reason  of  this  designation 
will  be  found  further  on,  where  it  will  be  seen  that  the 
family  settled  first  in  Leicester  and  afterwards  removed 
to  Suffolk,  from  whence  the  original  American  ancestor 
emigrated,  bringing  with  him,  for  use,  this  highly  prized 
armorial  ensign.  That  such  was  the  case,  is  evidenced 
in  many  ways  in  heraldic  and  genealogical  works,  and  by 
the  correspondence  of  the  original  emigrant  ancestor  of 
the  line  and  his  son. 

The  impression  or  engraving  of  this  Coat  of  Arms  is 
given  at  the  introduction  of  this  volume  and  is  here  re- 
peated. It  is  proper  to  remark,  however,  that  the  presen- 
tation of  the  "Arms"  in  printer's  ink  fails  to  give  either  the 
beauty  or  significance  of  the  article.  In  order  to  a  correct 
understanding  of  the  several  parts,  it  should  be  borne  in 
mind  that  no  part  of  the  whole  is  black,  save  only  the 
three  "martlets  sable" — the  "crest"  or  wolf's  head  being 
azure  or  light  blue,  the  border  and  belt  red,  the  shield 
silver,  the  bezants  or  coins  and  mascles  gold. 

3 


PAYNE. 


Ipstuich    Branch.  35 

The  "Arms"  are  thus  described  in  Burke's  Encyclopae- 
dia, page  604  : 

Argent  (i),on  a  fesse  (2),  engrailed  (3),  gules  (4),  be- 
tween three  martlets  (5)  sable  (6),  as  many  mascles  (7), 
or(S),  all  within  a  bordure(9)of  the  second (io),bezantee 
(n),  crest,  a  wolf's  head  erazed(i2),  azure  (i3)charged 
with  five  bezants  (14),  salterwise  (15). 

The  interpretation  or  explanation  of  the  several  parts 
or  indications  is  as  follows : 

1.  "Argent." — Silver,  referring  to  the  shield, purity. 

2.  "J?esse."—The  belt  of  a  Knight. 

3.  *•*•  Engrailed." — Indented  or  wavy  edges,  denoting 
that  the  honor  was  obtained  with  difficulty. 

4.  "Gules." — Red.    referring   to   the  belt,   coiirage. 

5 .  ' •  Martlets." — Birds  of  a  swallow  kind  without  feet, 
denoting  a  younger  son,  having  no  landed  inheritance. 

6.  "Sable." — Black,  denoting  antiquity  of  lineage. 

7.  "Mascles." — The  three  rhombs  or  lozenge  forms 
in    the  middle  of  the  belt,   signifying  meshes   of  a    net ; 
fishing  privileges. 

8.  "Or"— Gold,  goodness. 

9.  ^Bordure." — An  additional  honor  or  mark  of  ca- 
dency distinguishing  one  branch  from  another. 

10.  "Second." — Of    the    second    color    named,   red. 

1 1.  Bezantee. — Sprinkled  with  round  pieces  of  gold, 
said  to  indicate  the  coins  of  Byzantium  or  Constantinople, 
and  that  they  had  been  to  the  Crusades  and  ransomed. 

12.  "Erazed." — When   the    head  is    torn    from    the 
body  and  presenting  at  the  neck  a  rough  or  ragged  ap- 
pearance instead  of  straight,  showing  strength  as  against 
skill,  with  the  sword. 

13.  '•'Azure" — Blue,  truth  and  fidelity. 

14. — "Bezants." — Substantive  of  bezantee,  gold  coins. 
15.     " Saltenvise." — Arranged  in  the  form  of  a  cross 
X,  sijrnifvinsr  Crusade  service. 


36  Paine    Genealogy. 


CHAPTER    VIII. 
Hugh  de  Payen  a  -progenitor  of  Ipswich  Branch. 

HAVING  in  the  foregoing  chapters  given  more  par- 
ticular attention  to  the  history  of  the  Norman 
race,  to  which  all  families  of  "Paine"  belong,  and  to  such 
facts  as  have  a  general  bearing  on  the  subject  in  hand,  a 
more  particular  application  of  the  facts  already  elicited, 
comes  now  in  place.  From  the  history  already  given,  it 
may  be  regarded  as  presumably  established  that  Hugh  de 
Payen  was  the  son  of  Pagen,  alias  Payen  of  Domes- 
day, whose  important  connection  with  William  the  Con- 
queror shows  him  to  have  been  one  of  the  nobles  upon 
whom  the  King  was  accustomed  to  bestow  his  favors,  as 
already  related.  The  question  now  arises  as  to  the  present 
representative  of  that  family,  and  whether  it  is  not  the 
family  to  which  we  have  given  the  name  of  the  "Ipswich 
Branch."  To  settle  this  question,  the  first  resort  is  to  the 
Coat  of  Arms  used  by  the  family,  a  particular  description 
and  interpretation  of  which  has  been  given  in  the  last 
chapter.  The  teaching  or  inference  derived  from  this,  is 
that  the  assumer  or  progenitor,  whose  honors  and  virtues 
he  inherited,  was  a  Crusader,  engaged  in  the  Holy  War, 
— that  there  he,  by  his  bravery  and  virtue,  earned  the 
honor  of  Knighthood, — that  he  was  a  younger  son  and 
thus  poor  and  without  inheritance,  and  that  his  lineage  was 
not  only  honorable  but  ancient.  In  connection  with  this 
fact,  it  is  to  be  noted  that  the  "arms"  itself  is  of  so  early 
date  as  not  to  be  included  in  works  explanatory  of  heraldic 


Ipswich    Branch.  37 

history,  as  it  antedates  the  earliest  that  such  history  under- 
takes to  explain. 

At  what  period  of  time  and  in  which  particular  Crusade 
he  served,  the  evidence  does  not  testify,  but  the  history  of 
the  Holy  Wars  leaves  little  or  no  doubt  on  the  subject. 
The  first  Crusade,  which  commenced  its  march  in  the  last 
year  of  the  eleventh  century,  was  really  the  only  one  that 
was  to  any  considerable  extent  patronized  by  Normans, 
and  the  only  one  indeed  in  which  the  English  nation  was 
in  any  great  degree  engaged,  except  that  in  which  Richard, 
Coeur  de  Lion,  served  so  conspicuously.  The  first  was 
largely  made  up  of  Normans  from  their  native  state  and 
England,  as  well  as  Italy,  where  that  race  had  so  numer- 
ously settled.  They  went,  too,  under  the  leadership  of 
their  own  Duke  Robert,  son  of  their  new  King,  William 
the  Conqueror,  and  brother  of  his  successor  William 
Rufus.  The  party  in  question  being  thus  a  Norman,  in 
the  days  when  clanship  prevailed  over  every  other  con- 
ceivable motive  and  prompter  to  action,  there  can  be  no 
reasonable  doubt  that  he  went  in  that  company,  where 
alone  he  could  find  true  and  natural  companionship.  The 
Crusade  service  was  a  volunteer  one  and,  in  those  days, 
no  relation  of  friendship,  or  even  of  humanity,  prevailed 
outside  of  one's  own  kinship  or  race,  and  especially  be- 
yond the  limits  of  a  common  dialect  and  habits  of  life. 
It  was  as  it  may  be  in  the  distant  future,  when  the  ques- 
tion may  be  asked  with  reference  to  any  particular  white 
man  or  Indian,  on  which  side  he  served  in  the  wars  of 
the  States  against  the  Aborigines.  The  conclusion  is  clear 
and  inevitable,  that  the  progenitor  in  question  must  have 
served  in  that  Crusade,  which  Robert  the  Duke  led,  and 
which  was  undertaken  A.  D.  1099. 


38  Paine   Genealogy. 

This  conclusion  is  strongly  corroborated  by  the  fact,  so 
noticeable  in  the  history  of  those  times,  of  the  names 
given  to  the  children  in  the  successive  generations  which 
followed  the  events  related.  Allusion  has  already  been 
made  to  the  fact  that  surnames  were  first  adopted  in  Nor- 
mandy and  England  about  the  time  of  the  Norman  Con- 
quest, which  was  but  a  few  years  before  the  first  Crusade 
took  place.  The  adoption  of  surnames  is  only  another 
expression  for  the  use  of  what  we  call  Christian  names, 
and  the  rules  of  adoption  are  very  simple  and  intelligible, 
not  only  from  what  one's  reason  teaches,  but  also  from 
what  we  learn  from  history.  The  name  of  "Pay en." 
being  adopted  as  a  surname,  for  reasons  already  related, 
no  prefix  or  Christian  name  could  be  so  natural  as  that  of 
the  Conqueror,  whose  fortune  they  had  followed  in  the 
war,  or  that  of  the  Duke,  who  led  them  in  victory  to  the 
Holy  Places.  This  readily  explains  the  striking  fact,  that 
the  names  of  William  and  Robert  were  most  commonly 
used,  and  were  constantly  found  in  the  family  in  question, 
down  to  the  time  of  emigration  and  several  generations 
afterwards. 

From  what  has  already  been  advanced,  it  is  quite  ap- 
parent that,  whoever  the  person  may  have  been  whose 
valor  and  virtue  are  signalized  by  the  Coat  of  Arms  of 
the  family,  he  served  in  the  first  Crusade  in  which  Hugh 
also  served.  The  Coat  of  Arms  presents  him  as  a  younger 
son,  and  bv  reason  thereof  poor,  or  without  inheritance, 
thus  like  Hugh,  having  Edmund,  his  elder  brother,  the 
inheritor  of  all  his  father's  estate. 

"The  banner  and  seal  of  the  Order  of  Knights  Templar 
bore  a  cross  gules,  on  a  field  argent."  The  family  Coat 
of  Arms  spoken  of  represents  the  assumer  or  his  progen- 
itor to  be  a  knight^  and  contains  also  the  two  indications 


Ipswich  JB  ranch.  39 

thus  on  the  Templar's  banner,  showing  quite  conclusively 
that  he  was  one  who  had  a  right  to  Templar  fame. 

All  these  facts,  with  the  additional  one  of  identity  of 
name,  would  seem  to  fix,  almost  beyond  doubt,  the  identity 
of  person.  The  story,  simply  otherwise  told,  is  that  two 
men  of  the  same  name,  both  Normans  and  both  poor,  by 
reason  of  being  younger  sons  and  thus  without  inheritance, 
both  Templars,  shared  in  the  same  Crusade  the  honor  of 
Knighthood  for  valor  and  virtue  exercised,  and  both, 
necessarily  from  the  nature  of  things,  alike  nobly  con- 
nected by  blood  or  other  relationship.  It  is  more  natural 
to  suppose  them  to  be  one  and  the  same  person  rather 
than  two.  But  what  makes  the  conclusion  all  the  more 
certain  is  the  fact,  that,  in  the  compilation  of  "all  the 
known  crests  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,"  by  Fairbairns, 
in  which  twenty-six  different  ones  are  given  to  the  name 
of  "Payne,"  only  one  has  the  sign  of  Crusade  service 
upon  it,  being  that  of  the  family  in  question,  or  of  Leices- 
ter and  Suffolk  Counties  ;  the  sign  being  that  of  a  cross 
formed  by  five  bezants  saltier,  thus  establishing,  by  neg- 
ative proof,  what  is  often  the  strongest  kind  of  the  affirm- 
ative, according  to  the  old  legal  maxim :  Expressio 
unius  est  exclusio  alterius. 

This  conclusion  has  more  weight  from  the  fact  that 
Hugh's  prominence  as  a  Crusader,  and  as  founder  of  the 
order  of  Knights  Templar,  would  very  naturally  make  his 
virtues  to  be  greatly  sought  for  by  all  his  heirs  who  had 
a  right  to  claim  and  use  them  on  their  Coats  of  Arms. 
So  brilliant  a  prize  could  not  have  been  overlooked  or 
disregarded  in  such  an  age,  for  such  a  purpose.  That 
"order"  maintained  its  existence  and  immense  popularity 
for  about  200  years,  until  the  I4th  century,  when  Coats 
of  Arms  were  introduced  with  such  general  favor.  Under 


40  Paine    Genealogy. 

such  circumstances,  Hugh's  virtues  would  be  grasped  and 
appropriated  with  greatest  avidity  by  his  heirs  who  had 
the  only  right.  We  can  scarcely  conceive  of  one,  having 
so  rich  an  heir-loom  at  his  command,  allowing  it  to  be 
thrown  away  or  neglected.  More  readily  would  such 
heirs  have  abandoned  the  richest  pecuniarv  inheritance. 
But,  as  has  just  been  shown,  such  abandonment  must 
have  been  suffered,  unless  the  Coat  of  Anns  in  question 
was  the  one  which  was  adopted,  for  none  other  exists 
having  upon  it  the  particularly  desirable  indications  of 
Crusade  service  and  Templar  fame. 

It  is  not  supposed  that  the  Coat  of  Arms  was  that  of 
Hugh  de  Payen  himself,  for  he  died  before  Coats  of  Arms 
were  adopted  in  England,  but  only  that  the  assumer  was 
of  his  lineage,  none  other  having  a  right  to  assume  his 
characteristics  save  his  heirs,  these  being,  as  a  sacred 
heir-loom,  their  title  alone.  Some  one  or  two  centuries 
passed  before  such  Coats  of  Arms  were  adopted,  and. 
very  shortly  after  that,  we  find  that  of  "Leicester  and 
Suffolk  Counties"  used  by  the  progenitor  of  the  Ipswich 
Branch,  then  living  at  Market  Bosworth  in  the  county 
first  named.  A  marked  characteristic  of  this  is  the  three 
martlets  sable,  indicating  antiquity  of  lineage  by  its  sable 
or  black  color.  As  the  qualities,  which  earned  the  coat 
at  all.  were  gained  by  Crusade  service,  and  Hugh  was  in 
the  first,  no  more  ancient  lineage  could  have  been  indi- 
cated, while  we  are  almost,  as  it  were,  forbidden  the  right 
of  ascribing  a  later  period  for  earning  the  reputation  of 
"Antiquity" 


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CHAPTER     IX. 

The  Family  Litieage. 
r  I  ^HE  first  definite  information  which  we  have  of  the 

1  lineage  of  the  family  in  question,  besides  what  has 
already  been  written,  is  that  which  we  find  in  the  "Visi- 
tation of  Suffolk  County,"  a  work  originally  compiled  in 
1561,  but  afterwards  extended,  at  two  or  three  different 
times,  within  the  next  century.  This  work  was  afterwards 
supplemented  by  Gage  in  his  "History  of  Suffolk  County," 
both  works  treating  quite  fully  of  the  family  in  question. 

These  writers  both  describe  the  family  as  resident  in 
Leicestershire,  upon  the  famous  field  of  Bosworth  where 
the  last  great  battle  of  the  Roses  was  fought,  and  the  fate 
of  the  Houses  of  York  and  Lancaster  decided  by  the 
death  of  Richard  III.,  on  Aug.  22,  1485.  Though  gen- 
erally known  as  "Bosworth,"  the  more  accurate  name  of 
the  place  was  "Market  Bosworth."  situate  in  Leicester 
County,  near  the  central  point  of  the  Kingdom,  being 
one  of  the  places  where  Pagen^  of  Domesday  fame,  had 
land. 

The  identity  of  lineage  is  made  certain  by  the  continued 
use  made  of  the  same  Coat  of  Arms  by  the  family  at 
Bosworth,  and  afterwards  in  Suffolk  County,  and  by  the 
original  American  families  for  two  generations  after 
emigration. 


43  Paine   Genealogy. 

GENERATION  I. 
Sir   Thomas  Payne*  Knight. 

1.  Beginning  with  the  history  of  the  family  as  pre- 
sented in  the  "Visitation,"   we  have  first  in  the  list,  the 
name  of  SIR  THOMAS  PAYNE,  KNIGHT,  of  Market  Bos- 
worth,  who  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Pultney,  Knight,  the  ancestor  of  William   Pultney,  Earl 
of  Bath,  the  celebrated  statesman,  who  actetl  so  import- 
ant a  part,    first  as  Minister  of  War,   and  afterwards  as 
Premier  of  England  in  the  early  part  of  the  last  century. 
The  dates  of  Sir  Thomas'  birth,  or  death,  are   neither  of 
them  given,  but  the  dates  at  which  his  descendants  came 
upon  the  stage  of  active  life,  show  that  he  must  have  been 
born  in  the  early  part  of  the  fifteenth  century.      He  had 
three  sons : 

2.  Robert. 

3.  William. 

4.  Edmund. 

The  dates  of  their  births  are  neither  of  them  given,  but 
the  record  shows  the  younger  of  the  three  alive  in  the 
32d  year  of  Henry  VIII.,  or  A.  D.  1540,  at  which  time 
he  had  a  grandson,  then  a  rich  and  active  man,  as  will  be 
more  apparent  in  what  follows.  This  fact  would  seem  to 
establish  the  birth  of  Sir  Thomas,  the  great-grandfather 
of  a  wealthy  business  man,  according  to  the  usual  average 
of  life  and  birth,  at,  or  nearly  as  early  as,  the  year  1400. 

What  became  of  the  two  elder  sons  of  Sir  Thomas  is 
not  recorded,  which  shows  conclusively  that  neither  of 
them  removed  to  Sufiblk  County,  and  as  no  mention  is 
made  of  them  in  the  "Visitation  of  Leicestershire,"  it  is 
equally  clear  that  they  did  not  remain  there  and  have 
progeny.  In  the  "Visitation  of  Huntingdonshire,"  an 


Ipswich  Branch.  43 

adjoining  county,  the  genealogy  of  a  "Robert  Payne"  is 
given,  the  particulars  of  which  would  seem  to  establish 
identity  with  Robert,  the  son  of  Thomas,  except  that  his 
Coat  of  Arms  was  not  identical.  As  different  sons  often  did 
adopt  different  coats  from  their  father,  this  fact  alone  does 
not  disprove  the  identity.  This  family  was  generally  set- 
tled at  St.  Neot's,  a  place  but  little  remote  from  the  place 
where  Edmund's  family  resided,  in  and  about  St.  Ed- 
mundsbury  and  Nowton  in  the  County  of  Suffolk. 

Just  here  it  may  be  appropriate  to  call  attention  to  the 
peculiar  naming  of  these  three  sons,  as  the  names  used 
often  afford  a  most  important  clew  to  the  family  genealogy. 
The  frequent  recurrence  of  the  names  of  William  and 
Robert  in  the  line,  and  the  reason  of  it,  have  already  been 
spoken  of.  The  name  of  Edmund  thus  found  in  the  first 
family  of  which  we  have  mention,  most  naturally  carries 
us  back  to  Edmund,  the  son  of  Pagen,  whom  we  have 
ventured  to  credit  as  the  elder  brother  of  Hugh,  and  also 
the  ancestor  of  the  family  in  question.  The  proof  is  not 
conclusive,  but  for  those  days  it  was  a  coincidence  of  no 
small  force  as  evidence. 

GENERATION  II. 

(4.)  EDMUND  PAYNE,  youngest  son  of  Sir  Thomas(i), 
alive  in  32d  of  Henry  VIII.,  or  A.  D.  1540,  married 
Elizabeth  the  daughter  of  Robert  Walton,  of  Leicester 
County,  and  had  several  sons.  His  place  of  residence 
was  undoubtedly  that  of  his  birth,  at  Bosworth.  Among 
his  sons  were : 

5.       William  Payne,  the  eldest  of  them  all  and  his  heir. 
GENERATION    III. 

(5.)  WILLIAM  PAYNE,  son  of  Edmund  (4)  and  his 
heir,  grandson  of  Sir  Thomas  (i),  removed  to  Suffolk 
County,  and  took  up  his  residence  at  Hengrave  in  that 


44  Paine   Genealogy. 

county-  Carrying  with  him  the  use  of  his  grandfather's 
Coat  of  Arms,  this  came  thenceforth,  in  heraldic  history 
to  he  known  as  the  ''Coat  and  Crest  of  Leicester  Countv. 
and  Suffolk  County,"  and  is  especially  known  as  belonging 
to  "Payne  of  Hengrave."  He  was  a  man  of  much  note 
and  importance  in  his  day,  being  in  the  service  of  Edward 
Stafford,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  as  bailiff  of  his  Manor 
of  Hengrave.  In  1521,  the  Duke  having  been  convicted 
of  conspiring  against  King  Henry  VIII.  to  establish  him- 
self in  power,  as  his  successor,  was,  by  order  of  the  King, 
put  to  death.  The  office  thus  becoming  vacant  by  the 
death  of  the  Duke,  Payne  lost  his  place  as  deputy,  and 
was  obliged  to  retire  to  private  life.  The  Duke's  suc- 
cessor, however,  appointed  Payne's  son  to  the  office  held 
by  the  father,  as  will  be  mentioned  in  his  history.  Payne 
married  Margerv  daughter  of  Thomas  Ash.  by  whom  he 
had  twelve  children  : 

6.  Henry,  who  never  married. 

7.  yohn.  who  married,  and  his  widow  married  Win. 
James. 

8.  Thomas. 

9.  George. 

10.  Nicholas,  who  married  Ann  Howies  of  Haldock. 

1 1.  JZJward,  who  married. 

12.  Ant/tony,  who  married  Martha  Castell. 

13.  Agatha,  who  married  John  Pratt. 

14.  Elizabeth,  who  married  Oliver  Sparrow. 

1 5 .  Agnes. 

16.  Anna. 

17.  Prances. 

GENERATION    IV. 

(6.)     HENRY  PAINE,  son  of  William  (5).  grandson  of 
Edmund   (4),  and   great-grandson   of  Sir  Thomas  (i), 


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came  to  reside  in  Bury  St.  Edmunds,  in  the  County  of 
Suffolk.  He  was  a  lawyer  by  profession,  a  member  of 
Lincoln's  Inn,  Esquire.  During  his  life  it  was  that  Henry 
VIII.  dissolved  so  large  a  part  of  the  Catholic  monas- 
teries of  England,  and  seized  upon  their  effects,  converting 
them  to  his  own  use  and  purposes.  In  the  37th  year  of 
that  King's  reign,  A.  D.  1546,  Paine  purchased  of  the 
Crown  and  received  a  grant  in  fee  of  the  Manor  of  Nowton, 
the  advowson  of  the  church  and  the  hereditaments  in 
Nowton  belonging  to  the  dissolved  monastery  of  St.  Ed- 
mund, one  of  the  most  celebrated  monasteries  in  the 
Kingdom.  He  also  purchased  the  Grange  in  Thorpe 
Riggnoll,  in  the  County  of  York,  parcel  of  the  lands  of 
the  Priori  of  Worksop.  For  the  grants  he  paid  to  the 
Crown,  as  consideration,  the  sum  of  £647  i8.y.  2</.  The 
sale  of  the  Manor  was  made  subject  to  a  lease  then  exist- 
ing in  favor  of  Wm.  Sterne  for  twenty  years  for  the  yearly 
rent  of  £25  13^.  yd.  By  this  purchase,  Paine  became 
Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Nowton.  a  right  or  dignity  which 
followed  the  law  of  inheritance. 

After  the  fall  and  consequent  death  of  Buckingham,  as 
has  been  already  related,  and  the  consequent  dismissal  of 
Paine's  father  as  bailiff,  the  Duke's  successor,  Sir  Thomas 
Kytson,  appointed  his  son  Henry  to  the  same  office  of 
bailiff  of  the  Manor.  Paine  was  also  counsel  for  the  Earl 
and  Countess  of  Bath,  and  the  Earl  on  his  death  be- 
queathed to  him  for  a  remembrance,  a  gold  ring  of  the 
value  of  40^..  and  the  Countess  styling  him  "her  loving 
friend,"  directed  by  her  will,  that  he  should  be  associated 
with  her  executors,  and  gave  him  a  legacy  of  £20. 

Henry  Paine  died  July  2^,  1^68,  and  was  buried  the 
next  day  in  the  Parish  church  of  Nowton.  He  left  a  will, 
made  a  few  days  before  his  death,  giving  his  estate,  most 


46  Paine    Genealogy. 

of  it,  to  charitable  punposes.  To  three-score  poor  house- 
holders, in  each  of  the  Parishes  of  St.  Mary  and  St. 
James,  in  St.  Edmund's  Bury,  he  gave  three-score  bushels 
of  rye,  that  they  and  their  families  might  pray  for  him, 
and  to  the  poor  prisoners  in  the  gaol  two  bushels  of  rye 
to  be  baked  for  them,  together  with  as  much  meat  as  ten 
shillings  would  purchase,  and  6.v.  SJ.  in  money  and  an 
annual  allowance  of  wood  for  20  years  ;  645.  to  maintain 
the  monument,  etc..  of  St.  Mary's  Church,  2cxv.  to  repair 
it,  small  sums  to  the  poor  men's  boxes  of  Now  ton  and 
other  churches,  to  one  friend,  the  Countess  of  Bath's  cup. 
to  another,  his  Chaucer  kk written  in  vellum  and  illumined 
in  gold,'"  to  another,  a  standing  cup  with  cover  all  gilt 
that  was  part  of  the  Countess  of  Bath's  plate."  and  also 
ika  cloth  of  fine  work  that  hung  over  the  cupboard  in  his 
room  with  the  story  of  Noe  and  the  Creation  of  the 
World,"  also  various  gifts  to  his  brothers  and  sisters  and 
their  children.  To  Walter,  son  of  his  late  brother,  John 
Paine,  he  gave  his  homestead  on  College  Street,  St. 
Edmunds  Bury,  with  the  College  Hall  adjoining  and  300 
marks  and  furniture,  etc.  To  William  James,  the  2d 
husband  of  his  brother  John's  widow,  40.?.,  and  to  his 
brother  Edward,  his  household  effects,  tiles  and  bricks 
made  at  his  Manor  of  the  Clees  in  Essex.  Other  lands 
he  gave  to  his  brother  Anthony  for  life,  with  remainder 
over  to  Anthonv's  sons,  John,  Thomas  and  William  suc- 
cessively in  tail  male.  Besides  other  devises  he  gave  to 
his  brother  Nicholas  and  William  his  son.  the  Manor  of 
Netherhall  in  Soham,  Cambridgeshire  on  pay*  of  £100 
to  his  Executors.  The  Manor  of  Nowton  lie  settled  on 
his  brother  Anthony.  His  will  was  proved  Feb'y  2.  1569. 
He  was  never  married  or  at  least  left  no  widow,  or  child- 
ren. The  records  compiled  by  the  author  ot  the  "Visit- 


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ation"  show  "Mr.  Henry  Paine,  Esq.,  Lord  and  Patron 
of  Nowton,  buried  July  26,  1568." 

(7.)  JOHN  PAINE,  son  of  William  (5),  died  previous 
to  June  14,  1568,  leaving  an  only  son,  who  thus  became 
also  heir  at  law  to  his  uncle  Henry,  he  being  then  more 
than  21  years  of  age. 

1 8.  Walter  Paine. 

(10.)  NICHOLAS  PAINE,  son  of  William  (5),  resided 
at  Hengrave,  County  of  Suffolk,  June  14,  1568.  He  was 
devisee  under  his  brother  Henry's  will,  of  the  Manor  of 
Netherall  Tindalls,  in  Soham,  Cambridge  County.-  He 
married  Ann  Bowles,  of  Baldock,  Hertz  County,  and 
had  five  children  as  follows : 

19.  William,  married  Elizabeth  Chenery. 

20.  Thomas. 

21.  Mary,  married  Robert  Bridgham. 

22.  Dorothy,  married  Thomas  Nichols. 

23.  Ann,  married  John  Howard. 

(n.)  EDWARD  PAINE,  son  of  William  (5),  was  living 
June  14,  1568,  and  married.  He  had  the  Manor  of  Clees 
in  Alphanston,  Essex  County,  apparently  late  his  brother 
Henry's,  and  had  two  sons. 

25.      Thomas, 


,  both  living  Tune  14,  1^68. 
24.     Henry,     ( 

(12.)  ANTHONY  PAINE,  son  of  William  (5),  married 
Martha  Castell,  who  died  June  28,  1603.  He  lived  at 
Bury  St.  Edmunds,  gentleman,  and  had  the  Manor  of 
Nowton,  settled  upon  him  by  his  brother  Henry  (6).  He 
died  and  was  buried  at  Nowton,  March  3,  1606.  He  left 
a  will  dated  Feb.  16  previous,  in  which  he  directed  his 
bodv  to  be  buried  in  the  chancel  of  Nowton  church,  near 
his  late  wife — gave  his  house  to  his  son  William,  also  his 
nest  of  "bolls  with  cover  all  gilt  having  the  arms  of  the 


48  Paine    Genealogy. 

Countess  of  Oxford  upon  it,"  etc.  His  wife's  wedding 
ring  he  gave  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Walter  Paine  (18)  ;  all 
the  remainder  of  his  estate  he  gave  to  his  son  William, 
whom  he  appointed  sole  executor.  He  had  four  children  : 

26.  yohn^  who  married  Frances  Spring. 

27.  T'/iornas,  bap.  Jan.  16,  1563. 

28.  William*  bap.  Dec.  2.  1565,  married — 

29.  Anne,  bap.  Jan.  13,  1560,  married  Wm.  Weston. 
The  Manor  of  Nowton  which  Anthony  had  received  by 

devise  from  his  brother  Henry  (6),  was  by  him  left  to 
young  Anthony  (39).  son  of  John  (26),  who  had  died 
before  his  father.  This,  young  Anthony  conveyed  to  his 
uncle  William  (28),  who  thereby  became,  as  he  is  de- 
scribed in  the  Visitation,  "Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Nowton." 


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C  H  APTE  R    X. 

GENERATION  V. 

WALTER   PAINE,   (18),  son  and   heir  of  John 
(7),  gentleman,  had  two  children  : 

30.  Mary,  bap.  June  9,  1577. 

31.  John,  bap.  Dec.  12,  1579. 

(19.)  WILLIAM  PAINE,  son  of  Nicholas  (10),  resided 
at  Wellington,  Suffolk  County,  gentleman,  devisee  in 
remainder  of  the  Manor  of  Netherall  Tindalls  in  Soham, 
under  his  uncle  Henry's  will,  married  Elizabeth  Chenery, 
Nov.  8,  1585.  His  will  dated  July  26,  1614,  was  proved 
July  1 6,  1617.  They  had  five  children  as  follows  : 

32.  William,  died  in  1617. 

33.  Henry,  married  Ann  Alston. 

34.  Elizabeth,  married  Francis  Dister. 

35.  Mary,  married  Thomas  Biggs. 

36.  Ann,  married  Thomas  Gest. 

(24.)  HENRY  PAINE,  son  of  Edward  (n),  had  the 
Manor  of  Worlington  settled  upon  him  by  his  uncle 
Henry  (6).  He  was  married  and  had  two  children  : 

37.  Henry,  married  Susan  Beriffs,  and  died  Jan.  22, 
1606. 

38.  Thomas,  who  was  living  June  14,  1568. 

(26.)  JOHN  PAINE,  son  of  Anthony  (12),  married 
Frances,  daughter  of  Robert  Spring ;  baptized,  January, 
1558,  and  buried  at  Nowton,  October,  28,  1597.  He  was 
son  and  heir  apparent  of  his  father  Anthony,  but  having 
died  before  his  father,  the  descent  of  property  to  which 


50  Paine    Genealogy. 

he  was  heir  passed  to  his  son  Anthony  (39),  who  thus 
inherited  the  estate  which  was  devised  by  Henry  (6),  to 
his  brother,  Anthony  (12).  This  included  the  Manor 
of  Nowton  as  already  related.  The  record  of  his  death 
and  burial  is  as  follows  :  "John  Paine,  gcncrosus,  buried 
28  Oct.,  1597."  He  had  children  : 

39.  Anthony,  who  married  Alice  Playters. 

40.  JWartha,  baptized  Nov.  25,  1587,  unmarried. 

41.  Henry,  baptized  March  2,  1588-9,  unmarried. 
(27.)     THOMAS   PAIXE,    son  of  Anthony    (12),   was 

baptized  at  St.  Mary's  Bury,  16  Jan.,  1568,  but  was  not 
named  in  his  father's  will,  which  was  executed  Feb.  16, 

1606,  and  hence  the  conclusion  that  he  died  without  issue. 
(28.)     WILLIAM  PAINE,  son  of  Anthony   (12),   was 

baptized  at  St.  Mary's  Church,  Dec.  2,  1565,  and  was 
married.  His  wife  was  living  April  20,  1606.  They 
lived  at  Nowton,  a  Parish  of  St.  Edmunds  Bury,  one  of 
the  shires  and  principal  towns  of  Suffolk  County,  St. 
Mary's  Church  being  one  of  the  churches  of  Nowton. 
By  the  will  of  his  father  he  was  devisee  of  a  part  of  his 
estate,  but  being  a  younger  son,  he  was  not  heir.  As  has 
been  already  related,  John  (26),  his  oldest  brother,  had 
died  previous  to  his  father,  and  hence  his  oldest  son, 
Anthony  (39),  was  heir  to  his  grandfather.  As  such 
heir,  he  inherited  from  his  grandfather,  or  had  settled 
upon  him,  the  Manor  of  Nowton,  the  same  which  Henrv 
(6),  had  bought  of  Henry  VIII.,  belonging  to  the  dis- 
solved monastery  of  St.  Edmunds.  This  made  him  "Lord 
of  the  Manor,"  and  as  such,  owner  of  the  advowson  of 
that  church,  having  the  right  of  presentation  belonging  to 
that  office.  Anthony,  the  younger,  having  this  estate  in 

1607,  sold  the  manor  and  advowson  to  his  uncle  William 
Paine,  now  spoken  of,  for  £3000,  he  being  then  resident 


Ipsivich  Branch.  51 

at  Benham.  William  then  became  "Lord  of  the  Manor," 
and  as  such  held  his  first  court  there  in  Oct.  6,  1609,  in 
the  sixth  year  of  James  I.,  and  his  last  court  in  1621, 
having  thus  held  the  manorship  12  years,  when  he  sold 
out  to  Sir  Daniel  de  Ligne.  The  public  records,  as  col- 
lected by  the  author  of  the  "Visitation  of  Suffolk,"  show 
that  "William  Paine  sometime  Lord  of  the  Manor  (Now- 
ton)  was  buried  Nov.  21,  1648,"  and  that  his  wife  was 
buried  April  29,  1648.  He  must  thus  have  been  at  the 
time  of  his  death  of  the  age  of  83  years. 

That  the  William  Paine,  now  treated  of,  was  the  father 
of  the  original  American  immigrants,  is  not  certainly 
declared  by  the  records,  but  circumstances  leave  little 
doubt  of  the  fact.  That  these  were  of  the  same  family,  is 
demonstrated  by  the  Coat  of  Arms  which  is  conclusively 
proved  to  have  been  used  by  them  after  their  arrival  in 
America.  By  this  evidence,  they  are  shown  to  be  not 
only  the  descendants  of  Sir  Thomas  Payne,  of  Leicester, 
but  that  they  were  of  the  Suffolk  County  branch,  thus  of 
that  particular  descendant  that  came  thither.  And  still 
more,  the  Coat  of  Arms  so  used  by  them  also  came  to  be 
known  in  Suffolk  as  that  of  "Payne  of  Hengrave,"  as  has 
been  already  related  in  last  chapter  under  "William 
Paine  (5)."  It  is  clear  then,  that  our  ancestors  must  have 
been  of  his  descendants,  as  no  previous  member  of  the 
family  resided  in  Suffolk  County.  He  was  the  particular 
person  who  alone,  according  to  the  "Visitation,"  removed 
to  that  County  where  he  became  bailiff  under  the  Duke  of 
Buckingham's  successor.  The  history  of  his  sons  already 
given  would  seem  to  leave  no  other  place  to  locate  the 
parties  in  question.  The  fact  of  their  being  of  the  line, 
and  the  almost  certain  impossibility  of  their  belonging  to 
either  other  branch,  would  leave  it  presumably  proved,  at 


52  Paine   Genealogy. 

least  to  a  reasonable  certainty,  that  the  American  immi- 
grants in  question  were  thus  the  children  of  William 
now  spoken  of,  who  was  the  grandson  of  "William 
Payne,  of  Hengrave."  Hengrave,  St.  Edmunds  Bury 
and  Nowton  are  all  in  the  same  neighborhood,  and 
not  very  distant  from  Hadleigh,  where  Robert  married 
the  daughter  of  John  Whiting,  thus  adding  proof  to 
our  otherwise  well  established  probability.  And  the 
ages  of  the  parties  all  concur  with  the  same  proposition, 
William  the  supposed  father  being  born  in  1565,  and  the 
sons  William  and  Robert  in  1598  and  1601. 

The  "style, "too,  of  the  son  goes  to  confirm  the  same  idea. 
Of  the  150  persons  who  emigrated  in  the  same  company, 
or  about  the  same  time,  with  William,  only  some  half 
dozen  claimed  the  title  of  "gentleman,"  or  had  the  prefix 
of  "Mr.,"  one  of  whom  was  William  now  spoken  of,  a 
title  which  he  was  readily  accorded  as  the  son  and  heir 
of  one  who  had  been  "Lord  of  the  Manor."  The  char- 
acteristics of  the  persons  in  the  line  as  recorded  in  the 
history,  goes  to  show  strongly  the  identity  of  family.  The 
"gcncrosus"  accorded  to  the  character  of  John  (26)- 
agrees  well  with  the  similar  compliment,  paid  to  both 
William  and  Robert  in  America,  as  will  be  related  in 
their  respective  histories.  Indeed,  that  particular  and 
very  odd  vein,  which  runs  through  and  characterizes  the 
wills  of  the  different  parties  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic, 
lend  a  strong  piece  of  confirmatory  proof  of  the  proposi- 
tion. The  hunting  out  of  charitable  objects  of  bequest, 
so  characteristic  of  the  wills  of  Henry  (6),  and  his 
kinsman,  and  of  William  of  Ipswich,  would  seem  to 
lead  to  the  idea  that  the  one  was  of  the  same  blood  and 
spirit  as  the  other.  Then,  too,  the  money  item  strength- 
ens the  presumptive  proof  of  the  alleged  fact.  William 


Ipswich  Branch.  53 

especially,  and  also  Robert,  from  their  first  landing 
showed  the  characteristic  of  wealth,  and  they  both  died 
rich.  They  were  too  young  in  those  days  to  have  amassed 
so  much  money,  as  it  is  very  evident  they  had  from  the 
first,  and  the  only  conclusion  to  be  drawn  is  that  their 
father  was  wealthy.  But  it  was  more  especially  after 
the  death  of  William,  of  Nowton,  in  1648,  that  William's 
career,  of  Ipswich,  as  a  man  of  unusual  wealth  is  no- 
ticable.  Then  it  was  that  he  became  purchaser  of  the 
Watertown  Mills,  the  Lynn  and  other  Iron  Works,  and 
the  Sturbridge  lead  mines,  and  engaged  so  largely  in 
the  work  of  colonizing  Western  Massachusetts,  and  en- 
dowed the  Ipswich  Free  School.  It  was  soon  after,  that 
he  removed  from  Ipswich  and  entered  upon  his,  as  it 
were,  new  life  as  a  Boston  merchant,  and  exhibited  es- 
pecially his  great  wealth.  All  these  events,  coming  so 
soon  after  the  time  of  William  Paine's  death  in  England, 
leads  to  the  conclusion  that  he  did,  about  that  time,  re- 
ceive the  fruits  of  a  rich  heirship,  as  he  would  if  he  were 
the  son  of  the  former. 

Granting  that  the  American  emigrant  was  of  the  lin- 
eage of  William  Paine,  of  Hengrave,  as  the  Coat  of  Arms 
unmistakably  shows,  there  would  seem  to  be  no  other 
person  who  could  have  been  his  father  save  only  the  party 
now  alleged,  as  is  evident  from  the  history  of  the  several 
families  now  adduced.  So  that  we  are  brought  to  the 
necessity  of  excluding  him  from  the  line  altogether  or 
admit  the  alleged  paternity.  But  this,  the  Coat  of  Arms 
forbids. 

A  vigilant  effort  has  been  made  by  correspondence  with 
the  different  Registers  of  Suffolk  County  and  others  in 
England  to  learn  a  more  certain  result,  but  without  effect. 
No  will  or  intestate  administration  was  taken  out  on 


54  Paine    Genealogy. 

William's  estate,  and  his  name  does  not  appear  in  the 
probate  records  of  either  shire,  a  fact  which  leads  to  the 
supposition  that  his  family,  having  all  removed  to  Amer- 
ica, brought  hither  his  effects  without  a  formal  adminis- 
tration in  England.  The  fact  that  no  children  (except 
Anne,)  are  given  to  him  in  the  Visitation,  is  conform- 
able to  the  practice  of  the  Heralds,  who  uniformly  over- 
looked and  ignored  "all  who  had  deserted  their  country." 

The  conclusion  seems  compelled  that  the  original  immi- 
grant, William  Paine,  of  Ipswich,  was  the  son  of  William 
Paine,  of  Nowton.  the  son  of  him  of  Ilengrave,  whose 
seal  he  wore,  and  whose  character  he  so  well  imitated 
and  adopted.  But  even  though  this  conclusion  as  to  the 
particular  paternity  or  person  who  was  the  father  of  the 
emigrants  in  question  be  incorrect,  it  can  make  no  essen- 
tial difference  in  the  tracing  of  the  family  lineage,  as  has 
now  been  done.  As  already  remarked,  their  father, 
whosoever  he  may  have  been,  must  have  been  a  grandson 
of  William  Paine,  of  Ilengrave,  who  was  the  first  and 
only  person  who  introduced  the  Coat  of  Arms  fron  Lei- 
cester County  into  Suffolk,  and  was  thus  necessarily  the 
great-grandfather  of  William  and  Robert,  of  Ipswich. 
Hy  following  the  history  of  his  several  children  and  their 
descendants,  as  is  given  in  these  pages,  there  would  seem, 
however,  to  be  no  place  to  otherwise  locate  their  patern- 
ity. Those  sons  against  whose  names  there  is  no  men- 
tion made  of  marriage,  being  unmarried. 

His  paternity  being  thus  presumably  established,  we 
have  an  unbroken  line  of  descent  from  Sir  Thomas  Pavne, 
Knight,  of  Market  Hosworth,  about  the  year  1400,  down 
to  the  emigration,  with  the  further  presumption  in  favor 
of  the  line  extending  back  to  embrace  the  great  Templar 
Hugh  de  1'ayen,  of  Crusade  fame,  of  the  eleventh  cen- 


Ipstoich  Branch.  55 

tury,  and  his  father  the  distinguished  "Pagen"  of  Domes- 
day. 

The  children  of  William  Paine  now  spoken  of  were 
as  follows,  besides  Anne  above  mentioned  : 

42.  William  Paine,  b.  in  1598-9. 

43.  Robert,  b.  in  1601. 

44.  Elizabeth,  who  married  William  Hammond. 

45.  Dorothy,  who  married  Simon  Eyre. 

46.  Phebe,  who  married  John  Page. 

These  all  came  to  America  and  resided  here  during  the 
remainder  of  their  lives,  being  all  of  them  active  and 
intelligent  citizens,  who  took  most  important  parts  in  the 
work  of  the  early  colonists  of  New  England. 

GENERATION  VI. 

(32.)  WILLIAM  PAINE,  son  of  William  (19),  of  Wor- 
lington,  gentleman,  died  in  1617,  his  wrill  being  proved 
July  17,  1617.  He  was  devisee  of  the  Manor  of  Nether- 
all  Tindalls,  in  Soham,  by  his  father's  will,  and  by  his 
own  will  he  devised  the  same  to  his  mother  Elizabeth, 
and  his  brother  and  sisters  equally,  all  of  whom  joined 
in  levying  a  fine  on  same  to  the  use  of  Henry  (33),  in 
1625.  He  had  no  childrenand  was  probably  never  married. 

(33.)  HENRY  PAINE,  brother  of  next  preceding,  him- 
self also  styled  gentleman,  married  Ann  Alston,  of  Box- 
ford,  and  died  in  1639,  having  two  children. 

47.  Edward,  who  died  in  1667. 

48.  Ann,    who    married    Robert  Grigson,   and  died 
Sept.  n,  1684. 

(37.)  HENRY  PAINE,  son  of  Henry  (24),  married 
Susan  BerifT,  and  died  Jan.  22,  1606,  having  three  chil- 
dren : 

49.  Henry,  who  died  Dec.  7?  X6o3,  not  married. 

50.  Susan*  who  died  May  28,  1615,  not  married. 


56  Paine   Genealogy. 

51.      Tabitha,  who  married  Samuel  Bigg. 

(39).  ANTHONY  PAINE,  son  of  John  (26),  "gener- 
osus,"  gentleman,  heir  of  his  grandfather,  Lord  of  the 
Manor  of  Nowton,  married  Alice  Playters,  and  died  1608, 
at  the  age  of  23  years.  As  already  related,  this  Anthony, 
heir  to  the  title  of  Nowton,  sold  the  same  to  his  uncle 
William  (28),  for  £3000.  He  had  three  daughters,  but 
no  sons,  Frances,  Susan  and  Dorothy, 

Having  now  traced  the  line  through  the  generation  to 
which  the  American  emigrants  belonged,  and  thus  given 
the  entire  ante-emigration  history  of  it,  so  far  as  they  re- 
sided in  Suffolk  County,  from  which  our  ancestors  came, 
this  part  of  our  work  comes  to  an  end,  and  the  post- 
emigration  history  of  the  family  is  next  in  order. 


PART    II. 


POST-EMIGRATION.  OR   AMERICAN    HISTORY   OF   THE 
FAMILY. 


CHAPTER    XI. 
GENERATION   I. 
William  Paine. 

"TTTTILLIAM  PAINE  (42),  with  whom  commences 
V  V  the  American  history  of  the  family  in  question, 
was  born  in  Suffolk  County,  England,  in  1598-9,  prob- 
ably in  the  Parish  of  Nowton.  He  was  presumably  the 
son  of  William  Paine  (28),  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  that 
place,  as  has  been  already  explained,  under  his  name,  on 
a  previous  page.  He  came  to  America  in  the  ship  Increase, 
Robert  Lee,  Master,  which  sailed  from  London  in  April, 
1635,  he  being  then  of  the  age  of  37  years.  His  wife 
Ann,  40  years  of  age,  and  five  children  accompanied 
him,  the  oldest  n  years  and  the  youngest  8  weeks  old. 
They  landed  at  Boston,  and  at  once  took  up  their  resi- 
dence in  Watertown,  where  he  formed  one  of  the  "earliest 
list  of  the  inhabitants"  "to  whom  was  allotted  on  July 
25,  1636,  a  grant  of  the  Great  Dividends  to  the  freemen 
and  all  the  townsmen  there  inhabiting,  being  120  in  num- 
ber." To  each  of  them  was  thus  assigned  70  acres.  His 
location  was  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  present  grounds 
of  Mt.  Auburn,  on  "the  road  to  the  Pond,"  present 
Washington  Street,  about  one-half  mile  west  of  Fresh 
Pond.  In  addition  to  this,  his  homestead  lot,  he  very 
soon  acquired  many  other  parcels  of  land  in  town,  and 


58  Paine    Gencalogv* 

became  known  as  a  large  land-holder.  Although  he 
shortly  after  exchanged  his  home  for  one  in  another  town, 
yet  he  never  lost  his  interest  in  this,  his  original  place  of 
residence,  but  continued  through  life  to  be  a  large  owner 
of  property  there. 

Inheriting  the  blood  and  character  of  a  true  Norman 
ancestry,  wini  that  spirit  of  energy,  enterprise  and  public 
zeal  which  has  so  universally  characterized  that  race,  he 
began  early  to  exhibit  these  traits  of  character  in  his  busi- 
ness life,  and  to  be  recognized  accordingly  as  a  citizen  of 
value  and  importance.  Having  the  prestige,  not  only  of 
good  birth,  but  of  inherited  wealth,  with  the  additional 
characteristics  of  integrity  and  good  judgment,  he  came 
soon  to  be  selected  for  the  performance  of  public  duties, 
and  the  holding  of  important  trusts.  Few  men  of  his 
day  had  more  to  do.  than  he,  in  establishing  and  advanc- 
ing various  systems  of  public  improvement  and  matters 
of  public  weal. 

His  ancestors  in  the  old  country  had  been  persons  of 
distinction,  known  as  men  of  rank  and  station,  occupying 
positions  of  trust  and  importance  through  a  succession  of 
generations.  His  father,  as  has  been  already  noticed,  was 
for  many  years  "Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Nowton."  The 
son,  though  recorded  as  a  ''husbandman"  in  the  list  of 
emigrants,  was  yet  recognized,  in  that  very  list,  as  a  man 
of  honorable  distinction,  as  he  was  also  in  the  list  of  per- 
sons admitted  to  the  rank  of  "freeman"  shortly  after.  In 
both  he  is  designated  as  "gentleman"  by  the  prefix  of 
"Mr.,"  a  title  or  designation  granted  to  only  some  half 
dozen  persons,  out  of  about  150  in  number  in  each  case. 
This  honor  was  probably  conferred  upon  him  by  virtue 
of  his  father's  position  as  already  described. 


Ipswich  J5 ranch.  59 

Watertown,  soon  after  his  settlement  there,  having  be- 
come surcharged  with  inhabitants,  removals  were  found 
necessary,  and  among  those  who  sought  new  homes  in  other 
places,  Mr.  Paine  was  one.  On  July  4,  1639,  he,  with  his 
brother  Robert  and  a  few  others,  procured  a  grant  from  the 
Legislature  of  land  at  Ipswich,  "with  leave  to  settle  a  vil- 
lage there,"  and  thereupon  at  once  removed  thither,  where 
he  continued  to  reside  for  about  16  years,  aiding  largely  in 
building  up  the  village  and  town,  ever  since  known  by 
that  name.  In  the  mean  time,  on  May  13,  1640,  he  was 
admitted  freeman  and  hence  endowed  with  all  the  privi- 
leges of  citizenship. 

His  sterling  integrity,  good  judgment  and  active  busi- 
ness habits  soon  came  to  be  generally  known  and  acknowl- 
edged, as  is  evidenced  by  his  frequent  public  employment 
and  Legislative  appointments.  His  name  is  found  all 
through  the  Legislative  records  of  the  Colony  ever  after, 
during  his  life.  In  1640,  he  was  by  the  Legislature  se- 
lected as  one  of  the  tax  commissioners  for  the  appraisal 
of  "property ;  in  1642,  he  was  appointed  to  establish  the 
limits  of  Northam  (Dover) ,  and  also  at  about  the  same 
time  to  settle  the  bounds  of  Hampton  and  Colchester  ; 
in  1643,  to  determine  the  bounds  of  "Excetter  and  Hamp- 
ton ;"  in  1646,  to  settle  difficulties  at  Hampton  ;  in  1651, 
to  settle  the  Hampton  line;  in  1652,  to  settle  the  line 
of  Dover  and  Exeter,  and  in  1655,'  to  settle  the  line  of 
Hampton  and  Salisbury.  Other  matters  of  public  and 
Legislative  importance  up  to  the  last  year  of  his  life,  will 
be  related  in  the  following  pages. 

"FREE  ADVENTURERS." 

Soon  after  his  removal  to  Ipswich,  and  the  settlement 
of  that  town,  the  Legislature,  in  1645,  incorporated  him 
and  others  into  a  company  known  as  the  "Free  Adven- 


60  Paine    Genealogy. 

hirers,"  for  the  purpose  of  advancing  the  settlement  of 
Western  Massachusetts.  This  enterprise  was  sustained 
and  prosecuted  through  a  long  course  of  years,  indeed 
during  the  whole  remaining  term  of  his  life,  and  after  his 
death  by  his  son  John.  The  frequent  mention  of  this  en- 
terprise, made  in  Legislative  acts  and  the  liberality  with 
which  it  was  patronized  by  the  numerous  endowments 
or  appropriations  of  a  public  character,  show  the  great 
importance  of  the  work  and  the  care  with  which  it  was 
nurtured.  At  its  beginning,  a  grant  was  made  to  the 
Company  of  a  township  of  land  "about  ^o  miles  west  of 
Springfield,"  near  Fort  Aurania,  on  the  Hudson  river, 
and  afterwards  during  his  life  and  the  life  of  his  son  John, 
the  attention  of  the  Legislature  was  often  favorably  called 
to  the  enterprise,  as  will  appear  in  the  following  pages. 

The  Dutch  then  held  possession  of  the  river  and  fort, 
and  one  of  the  last  acts  of  Paine's  life  was  to  petition  the 
Legislature  to  open  negotiations  with  the  Dutch  govern- 
ment, with  a  view  to  secure  the  free  navigation  of  the 
river  to  New  York.  The  petition  was  effectual,  but  death 
prevented  the  father  from  carrying  out  the  scheme,  and 
his  son  John  afterwards  was  found  at  New  York  to  ac- 
complish the  object.  The  success  which  attended  the 
arms  of  Great  Britain  at  home,  just  at  that  time,  over  the 
Dutch  government,  also  gave  the  former  possession  of 
New  York,  and  consequently  of  the  river,  and  made  un- 
necessary all  further  proceedings  in  that  direction. 
OTHKK  CHAKACTKIUSTICS. 

A  further  evidence  of  the  importance  with  which  he 
was  held,  as  one  of  the  early  inhabitants  of  the  Colony, 
consists  in  the  frequent  employment  of  his  skill  and  ser- 
vices, in  matters  ot  public  concern,  by  the  governors  of 
the  different  states  of  Massachusetts  and  Connecticut.  This 


Ipswich  Branch.  61 

was  especially  true  of  Gov.  Dudley  and  Govs.  Winthrop, 
father  and  son,  of  the  two  states.  The  intimacy  between 
Paine  and  the  Winthrops  in  particular,  is  evidenced  in  dif- 
ferent ways,  but  more  especially  by  the  correspondence 
which  has  been  preserved  and  recently  published  by  the 
Mass.  His.  Soc.  Among  the  letters  are  found  some  nine 
in  number  from  Mr.  Paine,  between  the  years  1640  and 
1659,  on  various  subjects  of  a  public  and  private  nature, 
[Vol.  VII.  Series  4.]  The  quaintness  of  their  contents 
as  well  as  their  comprehensive  character  as  bearing  upon 
the  facts  of  contemporaneous  history,  otherwise  de- 
veloped, make  these  letters  valuable,  as  well  as  interesting, 
to  all  who  take  an  interest  in  his  life  and  character.  They 
would  seem  to  indicate  that  he  was  not  what  we  may  call 
an  educated  man,  but  one  possessed  of  a  sound  mind, 
good  judgment,  enterprise,  integrity  and  public  zeal.  The 
first  letter  to  Gov.  Winthrop,  Senior,  is  on  a  matter  of 
private  or  family  concern  as  connected  with  the  contem- 
plated marriage  of  his  niece,  daughter  of  his  sister  Ham- 
mond. The  exact  nature  of  the  point  at  issue  does  not 
appear,  but  the  whole  was  referred  to  the  Governor,  as 
arbiter,  and  this  letter  is  addressed  to  him  on  the  subject. 
The  several  other  letters  are  mainly  devoted  to  business 
matters  usually  connected  with  one  or  another  of  the  en- 
terprises here  detailed. 

Rev.  John  Davenport,  one  of  the  "four  famous  Johns" 
commemorated  by  Mather,  was  also  one  of  Mr.  Paine's 
intimate  associates,  whom  it  would  seem  he  greatly  es- 
teemed. His  letters  also  speak  of  Mr.  Paine,  and  in  one 
of  them  written  the  week  after  Mr.  Paine's  death,  the 
Parson  announces  the  event  to  the  Governor. 

The  intimacy  of  Mr.  Paine  with  the  Governors  in 
question,  and  more  especially  with  the  younger  Winthrop, 


62  Paine    Genealogy. 

of  Conn.,  is  exhibited  in  his  almost  constant  connection 
with  him  in  his  various  works  of  public  improvement 
and  enterprise,  of  which  we  are  about  to  speak.  When 
a  job  of  importance  was  to  be  done,  he  seemed  to  be  the 
Governor's  main  support  and  help  in  doing  it. 

The  most  striking  characteristic  of  Mr.  Paine  was  the 
numerous  works  of  a  public  character  which  he  either 
originated  or  engaged  in  during  almost  the  entire  period 
of  his  American  life.  These  were  many  and  varied,  a 
more  minute  account  of  which  follows. 
WATERTOWN  MILLS. 

About  the  time  of  his  first  settling  in  Watertown,  as  has 
been  already  related,  or  a  little  before,  the  first  milling 
enterprise  in  New  England  was  started  in  that  town  by 
the  erection  of  mills  at  the  head  of  the  tide  on  Charles 
river.  A  stone  dam  was  constructed,  and  mills  built  by 
Edward  How  and  Mathew  Cradock.  It  soon  came  into 
the  ownership  of  Gov.  Dudley,  and,  at  his  death,  it  was 
purchased  principally  by  Mr.  Paine,  who  continued  to 
carry  it  on  during  the  remainder  of  his  life,  and  thus  be- 
came one  of  the  first  manufacturers  in  the  whole  country. 
His  portion,  as  nearly  as  can  be  ascertained,  was  five- 
sixths  of  the  whole  title.  The  mill  was  at  first  a  "corn 
mill"  only,  but  was  afterwards  enlarged  so  as  to  embrace 
also  a  "fulling  mill"  as  well.  Upon  Paine's  death,  the 
title  passed  to  his  son  John,  who  conveyed  it  in  mort- 
gage to  Samuel  Appleton,  his  brother-in-law,  which 
mortgage  subsequently  passed  into  an  absolute  title  by 
foreclosure. 

LYNX  IRON  WORKS. 

Very  early  also,  in  the  history  of  the  Colony,  iron  ore 
was  found  in  Lynn,  on  the  Saugus  river,  and  the  great 
want  then  felt  by  the  inhabitants  for  various  kinds  of  iron 


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ware,  induced  some  of  the  leading  citizens  to  undertake 
the  enterprise  of  erecting  Iron  Works  there.  Thomas 
Dexter  and  Robert  Bridges  especially  took  charge  of  the 
business  at  the  beginning,  the  latter  carrying  specimens 
of  the  ore  to  England  to  induce  the  co-operation  of  men 
of  capital  there.  The  effort  was  successful,  and  a  com- 
pany was  formed  which  advanced  £1000  for  the  purpose, 
and  thus  set  the  enterprise  on  foot.  Gov.  Winthrop,  the 
the  younger,  early  became  interested  in  it,  and  in  con- 
nection with  or  through  him,  three-fourths  of  the  whole 
establishment  came  into  the  hands  of  Mr.  Paine.  The 
Legislature  recognized  the  importance  of  the  undertak- 
ing, and  gave  it  their  approval  and  encouragement  by 
appropriate  legislation,  exempting  the  property  from  tax- 
ation, giving  it  especial  privileges  for  the  prosecution  of 
tlie  business,  with  leave  to  export  its  manufactured  pro- 
ducts by  carrying  them  abroad  for  sale,  "provided  they 
shall  not  sell  to  any  person  in  actual  hostility  to  us."  ''But 
they  must  in  all  places  provide  some  good  means  whereby 
the  families  may  be  instructed  in  the  knowledge  of  Gocl." 
They  then  voted  that  "all  persons  might  come  in  and 
take  stock  in  the  enterprise."  These  Iron  Works  were 
the  first  ever  established  in  America.  They  were  called 
and  known  as  the  "Hammersmith,"  from  the  name  of  the 
town  in  England  whence  many  of  the  workmen  came.  At 
first  about  seven  tons  of  iron  per  week  were  worked  out, 
and  afterwards  eight,  and  the  Works  continued  to  be 
carried  on  for  a  long  time.  The  evidence  of  their  exis- 
tence remains  to  this  day  in  the  presence  of  vast  heaps  of 
scoria  still  existing  along  the  Saugus  river,  a  recent  letter 
writer  remarking  as  a  curious  fact,  that  in  a  neighborhood 
so  well  populated  for  generations,  so  manv  tons  of  these 
relics  should  now  remain  heaped  up  just  as  the  sooty 


64  Paine   Genealogy. 

workmen  left  them  200  years  ago.     These  are  known  as 
"Scoria"  or  "Cinder  Banks." 

At  the  time  of  Paine' s  death  he  was  owner  of  three- 
fourths  of  the  title  in  common  with  others,  the  whole 
being  under  the  supervision  of  Oliver  Purchess.  By  his 
will  he  gave  this  interest  to  his  son  John,  adding  the  fol- 
lowing clause  :  ''And  1  do  hereby  earnestly  request  Mr. 
Oliver  Purchis  to  be  helpful  to  my  son  John  concerning 
the  Iron  Works  and  the  accounts  thereof,  whose  abilities 
and  faithfulness  I  have  had  experience  of,  into  whose  care 
I  do  commit  the  said  accounts."  The  title  subsequently 
passed  from  John  to  Mr.  Appleton,  though  not  until  after 
a  long  lawsuit. 

BRAIXTREE  IKOX  WOKKS. 

Shortly  after  the  Iron  Mine  Works  were  established  at 
Lynn,  the  success  which  attended  them  stimulated  other 
places  to  seek  out  similar  objects  of  enterprise.  Among 
these,  the  first  was  the  town  of  Braintree,  where  iron  ore 
was  found  to  exist.  In  this,  as  at  Lynn,  Gov.  Winthrop 
took  a  deep  interest  and  favored  its  development.  In  one 
of  the  letters  already  spoken  of,  as  published  by  the  Mass. 
His.  Society,  Mr.  Paine  speaks  of  his  and  Mr.  Webb's 
participation  in  it,  and  allusion  is  made  to  the  fact  of  his 
purchasing  Mr.  Webb's  interest,  and  that  "he  was  like  to 
have  one-half  of  the  whole  works  at  Lynn  and  Braintree." 
By  the  inventory  of  his  estate,  it  seems  he  died  possessed 
of  three-fourths  of  the  title  of  both.  In  his  "History  of 
New  England."  Gov.  Winthrop  gives  a  pleasant  account 
of  the  origin  and  growth  of  the  Works,  and  the  means 
by  which  the  enterprise  was  accomplished  by  Legislative 
aid.  and  by  assistance  from  England.  "The  business," 
says  he,  "was  well  approved  by  the  Court  as  a  thing  much 
conducing  to  the  good  of  the  country,  but  we  had  not 


Ipswich    Branch.  65 

stock  in  the  treasury  to  give  furtherance  to  it,  only  some 
two  or  three  private  persons  joined  in  it,  and  the  Court 
granted  the  adventurers  nearly  all  their  demands,  as  a 
monopoly  of  it  for  21  years,  freedom  from  public  charges, 
trainings,"  etc.  A  grant  of  three  miles  square  of  land 
was  also  made,  to  help  on  the  enterprise,  to  John  Win- 
throp. Jr..  and  his  partners,  forever,  on  the  Monotocot 
river. 

NEW  HAVEN  IRON  WORKS. 

John  Winthrop.  Jr..  was  subsequently  made  Governor 
of  Connecticut,  and  took  up  his  residence  at  New  Haven. 
About  that  time  iron  ore  had  also  been  discovered  there, 
when  he  zealously  entered  into  the  plan  of  developing  the 
mine,  as  had  already  been  done  at  Lynn  and  Braintree. 
The  locality  of  the  mine  was  in  what  is  now  known  as 
East  New  Haven,  on  the  Lake  stream.  From  the  records 
of  the  General  Court  in  1655.  we  find  that  the  "Iron 
Works  being  considered  for  the  publique  good,  Mr. 
Goodyear  declared  that  he  and  Mr.  Winston  did  intend 
to  carry  it  on,"  and  "divers  spoke  that  they  would  give 
some  work  toward  making  the  dam,"  and  accordingly 
about  140  days'  work  was  subscribed.  Shortly  after,  the 
Governor  called  a  meeting,  when  it  was  found  that  some 
had  and  some  had  not  performed  their  subscription,  but 
after  consultation  it  was  voted  by  the  town  for  the  work 
to  go  on,  and  proper  arrangements  were  made  to  carry 
out  the  enterprise,  including  the  supply  of  charcoal  nec- 
essary for  the  purpose.  On  the  i4th  of  Sept.,  1657,  tne 
Governor  reported  that  ''Mr.  Winthrop  had  let  out  his 
part  of  the  Iron  Works  to  two  men  in  Boston,  Capt. 
Clark  and  Mr.  Paine,  as  they  have  agreed."  The  enter- 
prise having  been  patronized  as  a  matter  of  local  interest 
to  give  employment  to  their  own  citizens,  this  action  of 


66  Paine   Genealogy. 

the  Governor  met  with  very  general  disapprobation  as 
averse  to  that  end,  and  also  for  the  reason  that  it  would 
introduce  "a  collection  of  disorderly  persons  which  would 
corrupt  the  morals  of  the  neighborhood  and  cause  great 
trouble  in  the  town."  The  matter  was  finally  "referred 
to  the  Court  and  John  Cooper  to  consider  of  it,  who 
made  their  report."  The  business,  however,  did  not 
change,  and- Mr.  Paine  and  Mr.  Webb  continued  to  carry 
on  the  works  until  the  former's  death,  but  no  interest  in 
the  title  was  ever  obtained  by  him. 

In  the  published  letters  already  referred  to,  frequent 
allusion  is  made  to  this  business,  showing  Mr.  Paine's 
interest  in  the  work  and  its  progress,  as  well  as  Gov. 
Winthrop's  fellowship. 

Bradford,  in  his  "History  of  Massachusetts,"  bears 
testimony  to  the  usefulness  of  these  enterprises  in  the 
following  manner:  "The  advancing  prosperity  of  the 
Colony,  and  the  enterprising  spirit  of  the  people  were 
witnessed,  as  by  many  other  improvements,  particularly 
by  the  introduction  of  Iron  Works  which  were  established 
at  Lynn  and  Braintree,  and  by  ship-building,  which  had 
much  increased.  A  ship  of  400  tons  was  built  in  Boston 
in  1645." 

Whether  this  ship  was  built  by  Mr.  Paine  cannot  now 
be  known,  but  it  is  an  interesting  fact  as  connected  with 
this  branch  of  the  subject,  that  it  appears  by  the  inven- 
tory of  his  estate  in  Probate,  that  he  was  part  owner  of 
five  vessels  at  the  time  of  his  death,  and  had  investments 
at  that  time  in  adventures  both  in  England  and  Jamaica. 
STt'HHKiixjE  BLACK  LKAD  MINKS. 

Another  important  enterprise  in  which  Mr.  Paine  was 
engaged  and  took  a  deep  interest,  was  that  of  working 
the  lead  mines  at  Sturbridge  in  company  with  Thomas 


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Clark.  This  work  was  connected  with,  or  rather  grew 
out  of  the  "Free  Adventurers"  enterprise  in  the  settlement 
of  Western  Massachusetts.  From  what  we  can  glean  of 
its  history,  he  gave  to  this  his  very  particular  attention. 
He  frequently  alludes  to  it  in  his  correspondence  with 
Gov.  Winthrop  and  reports  progress  in  it.  The  mines, 
it  would  seem,  w^ere  originally  discovered  by  the  Indians, 
who  used  the  products  to  paint  their  faces.  Gov.  Win- 
throp's  attention  being  called  to  the  matter,  he  enlisted 
Mr.  Clark's  and  Mr.  Paine's  aid  in  developing  the  work. 
They  carried  it  on  for  several  years,  and  at  times  with 
much  success.  Quantities  of  the  ore  were  transported  to 
England,  and  there  worked  up.  The  Legislature  made 
a  grant  of  the  land  to  Gov.  Winthrop  where  the  mines 
were  located,  and  gave  him  liberty  to  purchase  other 
lands  of  the  Indians,  being  "the  hill  at  Tautousque." 
The  grant  was  subsequently  extended  to  embrace  four 
miles  square.  Though  very  many  men  were  engaged  in 
the  work  of  conducting  the  mine,  yet  Paine  and  Clark,  it 
would  seem,  paid  all  the  bills,  and  were  substantially  the 
oulv  owners  or  operators  of  it. 

OTHER  PROPERTY  AND  BUSINESS. 
The  extensive  ownership  of  lands,  in  various  other 
parts  of  the  country,  was  another  marked  feature  in  Mr. 
Paine's  character,  as  indicating  his  business  habits  and 
enterprising  spirit.  Among  them  an  interesting  instance 
exists  in  connection  with  the  island  known  as  Thompson's 
Island*  in  Boston  harbor,  the  present  location  of  the 
Farm  School,  and  always  a  favorite  resort  of  pleasure 
seekers  in  boating  excursions.  The  island  was  originally 
taken  up  and  occupied  in  1623,  by  George  Thompson,  a 
Scotch  immigrant,  who  first  settled  in  Piscataqua,  and 
thence  removed  to  the  island  in  question.  After  his  death, 


68  Paine    Genealogy. 

the  Legislature  granted  it  to  the  town  of  Dorchester,  but 
after  his  son  came  of  age  they  rescinded  the  "unjust 
act,"  and  gave  it  to  him,  giving  the  town  a  right  to  select 
some  other  land  in  its  stead.  Prom  young  Thompson, 
the  title  came  to  Nicholas  Davison  and  Capt.  Francis 
Norton,  by  whom  it  was  afterwards  sold  and  conveyed  to 
Paine.  Subsequently,  Paine  conveyed  it  to  his  son  John 
in  consideration  of  his  anticipated  marriage  with  Sarah 
Parker.  The  deed  is  on  record  in  Suffolk  Registry. 
PiscATAquA  TRADING  ESTABLISHMENT. 

The  deed  last  spoken  of  also  contains  an  assignment  or 
sale  of  £1500  stock  in  the  hands  of  Briant  Pendleton,  of 
Piscataqua,  [Portsmouth],  and  also  '"all  the  produce  and 
products  of  said  stock  with  full  right  and  interest  which 
was  in  way  of  copartnarship  between  him,  said  Pendle- 
ton, and  me,  the  said  Wm.  Paine."  On  Nov.  14,  1661. 
Pendleton  and  John  dissolved  copartnership,  and  recorded 
their  dissolution  as  already  stated.  From  all  which  it 
appears  that  Mr.  Paine  was  also  thus  largely  interested  in 
trade  at  that  place. 

PROPERTY  IN  OTHER  TOWNS. 

As  a  further  marriage  gift  he  gave  his  son  large  tracts 
of  land  at  Ipswich  which  he  then  also  owned. 

The  records  also  show  him  the  owner  of  manv  other 
farms  and  lots  of  land  in  the  neighboring  towns  of  Tops- 
field.  Rowley  and  Salem,  a  mill  privilege  in  Exeter,  and 
other  lands  in  Boston.  This  latter,  probably  his  home- 
stead, was  bounded  by  the  sea,  and  included  orchards  and 
other  improvements.  The  lands  in  the  other  towns  seem 
to  be  places  of  residence  as  in  almost  every  case  mention 
in  made  of  "the  houses  thereon,"  and  the  large  consider- 
ation expresses  the  same  idea  of  valuable  improvements. 


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OTHER  CHARACTERISTICS. 

But  it  was  not  solely  as  an  extensive  and  enterprising 
owner  of  property  that  Mr.  Paine  was  distinguished. 
There  were  other  important  traits  of  character  which 
tended  to  make  him  a  valuable  member  of  society,  and 
to  be  regarded  with  high  esteem  in  the  community.  He 
was  not  only  a  sincere  professor  of  religion,  but  from  his 
conduct,  so  far  as  we  can  read  his  character  in  his  works, 
was  eminently  a  man  of  a  high  moral  standard.  He  was 
evidently  a  generous  man,  a  true  descendent  of  him 
whose  death  was  recorded  with  the  impressive  term  of 
tigenerosus"  affixed  to  his  name.  Such,  indeed,  was  the 
record  made  of  him  and  his  brother  during  their  residence 
in  Ipswich.  The  liberal  gifts  made  as  a  marriage  endow- 
ment to  his  son,  shows  that  he  was  no  niggard  in  his 
estate,  but  had  an  open  heart  and  hand.  His  property, 
evidently  large  in  amount,  was  ever  treated  as  a  means  of 
advancing  the  public  weal,  and  it  would  seem  that  in  his 
investments  he  had  an  eye  to  that  use  of  it  that  would  do 
the  most  good.  Hence  we  find  all  his  efforts  at  wealth 
were  of  a  character  to  give  employ  to  others.  His  Iron 
Works  at  Lynn,  Braintree  and  New  Haven,  his  mills  at 
Watertown,  Lead  mines  at  Sturbridge,  his  shipping  and 
probable  ship-building,  his  adventures  to  England  and 
Jamaica,  his  "Free  Adventurers"  enterprise  in  Western 
Massachusetts,  his  extensive  farming  operations,  and  his 
large  trading  establishments  at  Boston  and  Piscataqua, 
were  all  of  a  character  to  give  employment  to  a  great 
number  of  laborers  and  others  necessarily  connected  with 
the  undertakings. 

BOSTON  MERCHANT. 

During  the  last  five  or  six  years  of  his  life  he  was  an 
active  merchant  of  Boston,  enjoyinga  character  for  wealth, 


jo  Paine   Genealogy. 

having  unmistakably  a  large  credit,  and  exercising  his 
trade  on  a  very  extensive  scale.  Judging  from  the  inven- 
tory of  his  estate  as  rendered  in  Probate  after  his  death, 
he  must  have  carried  an  immense  stock  of  goods  of  all 
conceivable  varieties,  that  the  wants  of  the  new  country 
could  possibly  demand,  a  variety  which  could  scarcelv 
be  outdone  by  all  the  stores  on  Broadway  or  Washington 
street  of  the  present  day.  if  we  exclude  all  newlv  invented 
articles  from  the  list.  The  inventory  alluded  to.  which 
may  still  be  seen,  as  rendered  immediately  after  his  death, 
is  of  great  length,  covering  several  pages  of  foolscap 
paper,  and  embraces  every  variety  of  merchandise  that 
the  wants  of  the  community  could  suggest  in  every  branch 
of  business.  We  find  there  all  kinds  and  varieties  of  dry 
goods  and  groceries,  liquors,  books  and  paper,  boots  ami 
shoes,  hats  and  caps,  all  kinds  of  men's  and  women's 
wear,  hardware,  mechanical  and  agricultural  tools,  crock- 
ery and  glass-ware,  room  paper,  trunks,  grain,  fish  of  all 
kinds,  molasses  and  sugar,  "moose  skins,"  "sow  iron 
and  coles,"  and  all  these  things  in  all  varieties.  Besides 
these,  the  schedule  of  inventory  contains  parts  of  five 
vessels,  his  Iron  Works  at  Lynn,  mills  at  Watcrtown. 
mill  privilege  at  Exeter,  land  in  Ipswich  and  Braintree. 
dwelling  and  furniture  in  Boston,  "an  adventure  to  Eng- 
land, £289,"  and  "to  Jamaica,  £52,"  demands  due  him 
"certain  £'1500,"  "accounted  of  as  doubtful.  £700,"  "ac- 
counted of  as  utterly  lost  and  desperate,  .£836  6jr.  2</." 
His  whole  estate  "exclusive  of  debts  due  him"  "amounted 
to  £4239  i  is.  $d"  and  he  is  reported  as  "in  debt  €1500." 
A  peculiar  feature  is  noticeable  with  reference  to  this 
inventory  which  goes  to  confirm  what  has  been  written 
respecting  his  character  for  charity  and  benevolence.  The 
cash  system  of  trade  was  not  with  him.  evidently,  a  rule  of 


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business.  On  the  contrary,  a  most  liberal  system  of  credit 
seems  to  have  been  adopted,  having  peculiar  reference  to 
the  needs  of  his  neighbors  and  customers.  One  would 
naturally  infer  that  he  was  accustomed  to  turn  away  no 
one,  who  would  buy  goods  on  credit,  for  the  reason  that 
he  was  poor.  The  result  was,  that  his  credit  sheet  was 
so  extensive  and  liberal  among  the  needy  classes.  We 
can  hardly  otherwise  account  for  the  excessive  amount  of 
bad  and  doubtful  debts  clue  him  when  he  came  to  die. 

EDUCATIONAL. 

In  other  ways,  too,  he  shows  this  same  spirit  of  a  public 
benefactor,  and  one  who  was  in  advance  of  his  age  in 
matters  of  public  improvement  and  enterprise.  One  of 
the  first  objects  of  his  ambition  as  a  citizen  of  the  "new 
world,"  was  the  advancement  of  education  among  the 
common  people.  In  promotion  of  this,  he  and  his  brother 
were  two  of  the  foremost  and  most  active  of  a  small 
number  of  men,  who,  at  that  early  day,  took  measures 
to  establish  and  endow  a  Free  School  at  Ipswich.  This 
school  thus  established  and  endowed  by  them,  has  ever 
since  continued  to  exist,  and  is  to-day  doing  its  work  upon 
the  fund  which  two  hundred  and  twenty  or  thirty  years 
ago  they  provided  for  the  purpose,  the  income  actually 
received  during  the  year  (1879)  being  $330;  certainly  a 
most  remarkable  fact  in  the  history  of  pecuniary  invest- 
ments. In  his  will  he  made  a  further  bequest  to  the  school 
of  a  lot  of  land  known  as  "JefFeries  Neck,"  at  the  mouth 
of  the  Ipswich  river,  which  he  devised  to  the  feoffees  of 
the  school,  to  be  held  inalienable  forever,  "not  to  be  sold 
or  wasted."  A  visitor  at  Ipswich  will  find  the  lot,  thus 
originally  given  for  the  purposes  of  the  school,  still  occu- 
pied by  an  old  school-house  on  "Paine  Street,"  which, 
with  its  predecessors  on  the  same  lot,  has,  for  the  past  two 


72  Paine   Genealogy. 

centuries  and  more,  been  devoted  to  the  cause  of  the 
school,  established  as  already  described.  The  land  at 
"Jefleries  Neck"  he  will  rind  covered  by  cottages  occu- 
pied as  places  of  summer  resort,  and  annually  rented  for 
an  income  to  help  support  the  school.  In  1851,  its  bi- 
centennial anniversary  was  celebrated  by  the  citizens,  by 
appropriate  exercises,  consisting,  in  part,  of  a  history  of 
the  institution,  and  its  origin  and  success.  The  school  has 
lately  been,  with  its  fund,  consolidated  with  another  sim- 
ilar charity,  recently  bequeathed  to  the  town,  and  a  larger 
and  much  more  convenient  house  been  erected,  voicing 
the  combined  gifts  of  the  two  benefactors. 

WILL,  ETC. 

Mr.  Paine  died  Oct.  10,  1660.  leaving  a  will  executed 
about  a  week  before  his  death,  which  was  duly  probated, 
and  is  now  on  file  in  the  Probate  office  in  Boston.  The 
will  was  evidently  made  and  bv  him  signed  while  in  a 
very  weak  state  of  body,  his  signature  being  scarcely  leg- 
ible. The  document  is  very  long  and  minute,  and  evi- 
dently drawn  by  a  professional  hand.  By  it  he  makes  a 
donation  of  £20  to  Harvard  College,  small  donations  to 
the  several  clergymen,  eight  in  all,  settled  over  churches 
in  Boston,  Watertown,  Ipswich,  Sudbury,  Chclmsford 
and  Rowley, — £1500  to  his  daughter  Hannah  Applcton's 
children,  certain  sums  to  his  wife  and  other  relatives,  and 
all  the  remainder  to  his  son  John,  after  providing  '•that 
if  my  executors  shall  see  just  cause  for  some  pious  use  and 
necessary  work  to  give  £100,  they  shall  have  power  to 
take  it  out  of  my  estate."  The  will  has  against  his  name 
a  seal  of  wax  having  the  impression  of  a  ''wolf  rampant." 
probably  in  accordance  with  the  custom  which  prevailed, 
in  days  of  heraldry,  to  adopt  for  the  devise  of  one's  seal. 


Ipswich  Branch.  73 

the  crest  of  his  Coat  of  Arms,  which  in  his  case,  was  a 
wolf's  head.  And  just  here  it  may  be  of  interest  to  re- 
mark, that  his  uniform  spelling  of  his  name,  not  only  on 
his  will,  but  in  his  correspondence,  was  the  same  as  now 
used  by  his  family,  and  in  this  work,  "Paine." 

The  place  of  his  burial  is  not  known  with  certainty, 
but  the  city  records  of  Boston  disclose  the  fact  that 
"William  Paine's"  grave  is  in  the  Granary  Cemetery,  and 
following  the  indications  given,  we  find  it  directly  under 
the  back  window  of  the  Athenaeum  building,  the  stone, 
with  the  single  inscription  of  "Payne"  upon  it,  forming 
a  part,  or  being  wrought  into  the  basement  wall  of  the 
building  itself.  A  carved  "cherub"  and  belt  are  also 
upon  the  stone.  This  is  presumably  the  grave  of  the 
original  founder  in  America  of  the  Ipswich  Branch  of  the 
Paine  family. 

The  foregoing  history  has  been  now  compiled  for  the 
first  time  by  a  very  great  amount  of  labor  and  investigation 
into  old  Legislative  records,  early  histories  of  the  Colo- 
nies, unpublished  manuscripts,  town  and  county  records, 
and  histories,  genealogical  and  historical  collections,  biog- 
raphies, as  well  as  personal  investigations,  all  existing 
independent  of  each  other,  heretofore  without  identity, 
and  now  for  the  first  time  brought  together  after  a  lapse 
of  more  than  two  centuries.  The  facts  detailed  are 
believed  to  be  a  true  and  reliable  account  of  a  man,  of 
whom  the  country  at  the  time,  and  all  his  descendants, 
may  justly  feel  proud.  No  one  can  read  his  history  with- 
out the  feeling  that  he  was  among  the  foremost  of  the 
early  inhabitants  of  the  Colony,  a  man  to  be  honored  for 
his  true  merits,  as  one  of  the  most  useful  and  public- 
spirited  men  of  his  day. 


74  Paine    Genealogy. 

Of  the  children  who  accompanied  him  from  England 
at  the  time  of  his  emigration,  all  but  John  died  before 
their  father.  Hannah  married  Samuel  Appleton,  and 
died  leaving  a  family  of  three  children.  His  wife  sur- 
vived her  husband,  his  will  making  a  provision  for  her 
support.  His  children  were  as  follows  : 

52.      Susan,  born  in  1624,  died  without  issue. 

William,  born  in  1625,  died  without  issue. 
Hannah,  born  in  1627,  mar.  Samuel  Appleton. 

>v      John,  born  in  1632.  married  Sarah  Parker. 

56.     Daniel,  born  in  1635,  died  without  issue. 

(43.)  ROBKRT  PAIXE,  the  younger  brother  of  Wil- 
liam (42),  was  born  in  Suffolk  County,  England,  in  1601, 
married  Ann,  daughter  of  John  Whiting,  of  Hadleigh, 
in  same  County,  and  with  her  emigrated  to  America,  in 
about  the  year  1640.  He  settled  in  Ipswich,  and  as  has 
been  already  stated,  was  one  of  the  persons  to  whom  the 
Legislature  made  a  grant  of  land  "with  leave  to  settle  a 
village  there."  He  was  admitted  "freeman"  June  2, 
1641,  and  continued  to  live  there  until  his  death.  His  wife 

Ann  having  died,  he  married  a  second  wife.  Dorcas , 

whom  he  survived  two  or  three  years. 

He  was  a  man  of  much  usefulness  and  importance 
in  his  dav,  and  one  who  was  almost  constantly  called  to 
the  performance  of  public  and  private  trusts.  Being  like 
his  brother,  a  man  of  good  estate,  he  was  liberal  in  its 
use,  and  thus  made  himself  to  be  regarded  as  a  public 
benefactor  as  well  as  a  useful  citizen.  To  such  an  extent 
was  this  the  case,  that  the  local  historian  of  the  time 
wrote  of  him  as  a  "right  Godly  man,  and  one  whose 
estate  hath  holpen  on  well  the  work  of  this  little  Com- 
monwealth." He  sustained  the  principal  offices  of  the 


Ipswich    Branch.  75 

town,  was  one  of  its  original  corporators,  and  feoffee 
of  the  Free  or  Grammar  school,  towards  the  establish-, 
ment  and  endowment  of  which,  with  his  brother,  he  was 
a  most  liberal  and  active  party.  He  was  the  ruling 
elder  in  the  first  church  of  the  place,  and  as  the  historian 
of  Ipswich  relates,  "his  profession  and  office  were  adorned 
by  a  life  of  active,  exemplary  usefulness."  In  1647, 8  and 9, 
he  was  deputy  to  the  General  Court  as  the  representative 
of  his  town,  was  on  the  committee  of  trade  for  Essex  in 
1655,  and  held  the  office  of  countv  treasurer  from  1665 
until  he  resigned  just  before  his  death  in  1683. 

In  furtherance  of  the  Free  School,  besides  his  pecuni- 
ary donations,  he  gave  the  use  of  a  dwelling-house  and 
two  acres  of  land  to  its  master  in  1652  or  3,  and  after  his 
death  his  son  Robert  and  wife  gave  the  property  outright 
to  the  town  for  the  use  of  the  school.  It  has  ever  since 
remained  the  town's  property  for  that  use  until  1880, 
when  it  was  sold  and  the  fund  invested  for  the  same 
purpose. 

Gage  says  of  him  :  "He  had  a  good  estate  and  was  lib- 
eral in  the  use  of  it."  He  died  in  1684,  at  the  age  of  83 
years,  leaving  two  sons,  both  born  in  Ipswich. 

57.  John. 

58.  Robert. 

(44.)  ELIZABETH  PAINE,  sister  of  William  and  Robert, 
(42,43,)  married  William  Hammond,  who  emigrated  to 
America  in  1632  and  was  admitted  freeman  May  25,1636. 
His  wife  followed  him  in  1634.  in  the  ship  Francis,  she 
being  then  47  years  old.  "He  is  related  to  have  had  a 
good  estate,"  and  settled  in  Ipswich  where  descendants  of 
theirs  may  still  be  found.  He  died  Oct.  8,  1662.  aged  94 
vears.  Thev  had  five  children,  viz  : 


76  Paine   Genealogy. 

59.  Will  lam  Hammond*  baptized  Sept.  20.  1607. 

60.  Ann,  baptized  Nov.  19,  1609,  and  died  soon. 

61.  John*  baptized  Dec.  5,  1611. 

62.  Ann,  baptized  July  14,  1616. 

63.  Thomas,  baptized  Sept.  17,  1618^ 

(4v)  DOROTHY  PAINE,  another  sister  of  William 
and  Robert,  married  Dr.  Simon  Eyre,  and  came  over 
together,  with  William  in  the  "Increase,"  which  sailed 
from  London,  April  15. 1635.  He  was  a  surgeon  by  pro- 
fession, of  much  eminence  in  his  day,  and  was  a  man 
largely  trusted  for  his  probity  and  good  business  habits. 
He  settled  in  Watertown.  and  was  made  freeman  April 
17.  1637;  represented  his  town  in  the  State  Legislature 
in  1641  ;  was  a  selectman  from  1636  to  1643,  and  town 
clerk  from  1641  101645.  lie  afterwards  moved  to  Boston 
where  his  wife  died  Aug.  n,  1650.  They  had  children 
born  in  England  as  follows  :  Afary  aged  15  at  emigra- 
tion ;  Thomas,  13  ;  Simon.  1 1  ;  Rebecca,  9  ;  Christian, 
7  ;  Ann,  5  ;  Benjamin.  3  :  Sarah,  3  months.  Besides, 
they  had  born  in  America,  Jonathan,  March  20,  1638. 
Dorothy,  June  14,  1640.  (64  to  69.) 

(46.)  PIIKBK  PAIXK,  a  third  sister  of  William  and 
Robert,  married  John  Page,  and  came  over  with  their 
two  children  in  ship  with  Gov.  Winthrop  in  1630.  lie 
took  the  oath  of  fidelity  the  same  year.  Settled  in  Water- 
town,  and  was  first  constable  of  the  town,  made  so  by  the 
Court.  Sept.,  1630.  His  house  was  burnt  April  21.  1631. 
Gage  speaks  of  his  "wife  and  two  children  whose  sufferings 
the  first  winter  were  duly  thought  of  by  his  former  min- 
ister, blessed  John  Rogers."  He  died  Dec.  18,  1676,  at 
the  age  of  about  90.  and  his  wife.  Sept.  25,  1677,  aged  87, 
both  at  Watertown,  where  thev  lived  ever  after  their  im- 


Ipsivich  Branch.  77 

migration.  Their  children  were  William,  (?)  John. 
Samuel,  Daniel,  Elizabeth,  3Iary,  Phebe,  and  Joseph. 
(70  to  75.) 


78  Paine    Genealogy, 


CHAPTER    XII. 
GENERATION  II. 

HANNAH  PAINE,  (54),  daughter  of  William  (42), 
married  Samuel  Appleton,  the  ancestor  of  the 
extensive  family  of  that  name.  She  died  leaving  three 
children,  after  which  her  husband  married  Mary  Oliver, 
from  of  whom  descended  the  whole  race  of  their  descend- 
ants, now  bearing  the  Appleton  name.  Hannah's  three 
children  were  as  follows  : 

76.  Hannah*  who   married  VVm.  Dowries,  and  died 
leaving  an  only  child,  a  daughter. 

77.  Judith,  who  married  Samuel  Wolcott.  of  Windsor, 
Conn.,  and  had  eight  children  ;  Samuel,  Josiah.  Hannah* 
Sarah.  Lucy.  Abigail.  Elizabeth  and  Mary. 

78.  Samuel,    who    married    Eli/abeth   Whittington, 
a  descendant  of  John  Calvin's  sister,  by  whom  he  had  a 
son  Samuel,  and  two  daughters,  Hannah  and  Martha. 
This  Samuel   married   John  Gerrish's   daughter   Anna, 
and   died   in    1728,  leaving  an   only  child.  Samuel,   who 
died  young  and   without   issue.      Hannah   married  Wm. 
Clark  in  1705.  and  Martha  married  Joseph  Wise  in  1708. 
The  Paine-Appleton  line  thus  became  extinct  in  name. 

John   Paine. 

(55.)  JOHN  PAINE,  son  of  William  (42),  was  born 
in  England,  in  1632.  and  came  to  America  with  his  fathvr 
at  the  age  of  three  years,  and  made  a  part  of  his  father's 
family  at  Watertown  and  Ipswich.  lie  married  Sarah 


Ipswich  Branch.  79 

Parker,  daughter  of  Richard  Parker,  in  1659,  and  took 
up  his  residence  in  Boston.  The  various  enterprises,  in 
which  his  father  was  engaged  at  death,  he  continued,  and 
especially  his  mills  at  Watertown,  Iron  Works  at  Lynn, 
trade  at  Boston  and  Portsmouth,  and  that  of  the  "Free 
Adventurers"  in  Western  Massachusetts.  He  was  also 
interested  in  business  at  Ipswich,  and  at  Dover  and  Exeter. 
He  appears  to  have  been  a  man  of  great  business  capac- 
ity and  enterprise. 

Just  prior  to  his  father's  death,  the  Legislature  had,  upon 
his  and  others'  petition,  ordered  negotiations  entered  into 
with  the  Dutch  government,  for  the  purpose  of  securing 
the  free  navigation  of  the  Hudson  river,  by  Fort  Aurania, 
and  thence  to  the  ocean.  Soon  after  his  father's  death, 
John  Paine  appeared  at  New  York  for  that  purpose,  as 
also  to  adjust  the  southern  boundary  of  the  Colony.  The 
Dutch  having  about  that  time  been  conquered  at  home, 
the  result  was  that  they  evacuated  New  York,  and  of 
course  the  English  succeeded  to  the  right  of  free  naviga- 
tion, without  conflict.  In  recognition  of  his  services  in 
these  different  trusts,  and  especially  of  "the  great  pains 
taken  by  him,"  a  grant  of  land  was  made  to  Mr.  Paine 
by  the  Legislature  in  1672.  ten  miles  square,  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  the  "Free  Adventurers."  and  another  in  1673, 
extending  the  grant  to  Hudson  river.  On  May  12,  1675, 
an  additional  grant  of  1800  acres  was  made,  and  soon 
after  still  another  of  4000.  the  latter  being  expressly  in 
consideration  of  "the  great  services  in  running  out  our 
south  line,"  for  which  duty  he  had  previously  been  ap- 
pointed by  the  Legislature.  The  first  of  these  grants  was 
made  on  condition  "that  he  should  settle  twenty  families 
on  the  territory,  and  then  procure  and  maintain  a  Godly 
and  Orthodox  ministry  there." 


So  Paine    Genealogy. 

PRUDENCE  ISLAND  OR  ''SopHv  MANOR." 

While  thus  in  New  York,  in  1671,  he  became  inti- 
mately acquainted  with  Gov.  Lovelace,  who  had  just  then, 
on  the  retirement  of  the  Dutch,  assumed  the  governorship 
of  the  Colony,  under  appointment  from  King  Charles  II., 
and  was  then  engaged  in  the  erection  or  "re-edifying"  of 
Fort  James,  situated  "at  the  point  of  land  formed  by  the 
Hudson  river  and  the  Sound."  This  was  at  the  foot  of 
Broadway,  at  or  near  the  spot  now  known  as  ''Bowling 
Green." 

Previous  to  this  time,  as  a  wedding  gift,  his  wife's  father, 
Richard  Parker,  had  conveyed  to  Paine  a  tract  of  land 
containing  about  700  acres  at  the  north  end  of  Prudence 
Island,  situate  in  Xarragansett  bay,  near  Providence.  R. 
I.,  which  gave  him  an  interest  therein,  and  led  to  the 
following  very  romantic  history.  But  for  the  indubitable 
proof  of  its  accuracy,  it  might  be  regarded  as  a  tale  of 
fiction.  The  historian  of  Rhode  Island  briefly  relates  the 
leading  facts,  but  the  particulars  and  the  identity  of  the 
principal  actor  have  never  before  been  fully  established, 
though  often  attempted.  A  careful  investigation,  however, 
has  brought  out  both  the  facts  and  the  actor  into  full  light. 

After  the  conveyance  by  Richard  Parker  to  Paine  as 
already  mentioned,  upon  the  occasion  of  his  marriage, 
the  latter  had  mortgaged  the  same  lands  to  Samuel  Ap- 
pleton  to  secure  the  .£1500  legacy  made  in  his  father's 
will  to  the  Appleton  grandchildren,  and  still  later  he  had 
also  made  a  conveyance  of  the  same  property  in  trust 
for  the  benefit  of  his  own  three  daughters  according  to  the 
verbal  agreement  made  at  the  time  of  the  wedding  gift. 

The  intimacy  which  grew  up  between  (joy.  Lovelace 
and  Paine,  led  the  latter  to  aid  in  the  erection  of  the  fort 
already  mentioned,  and  also  to  its  furnishing,  by  advanc- 


Ipswich  BrancJi.  Si 

ing  the  necessary  means  out  of  his  own  private  resources. 
By  this  act  of  munificence,  he  so  far  won  the  favor  of  the 
Governor  and  the  Duke  of  York,  afterwards  King  James 
II.,  that  a  patent  or  "confirmation  "  was  made  by  them  to 
him  of  the  island  named,  to  be  held  in  fee  as  a  Free 
Manor  by  the  name  of  "Sophy  Manor"  forever. 

The  patent  was  made  subject  to  the  annual  quit-rent 
of  "two  barrells  of  syder  and  six  couple  of  capons."  This 
was  in  August,  1672.  The  following  week,  Paine  was 
made  Governor  of  the  island  for  life,  with  a  council  to  be 
chosen  from  the  inhabitants,  and  courts  of  limited  juris- 
diction and  a  regular  constitution  of  government  was 
ordained  and  promulgated  for  the  people,  one  article  of 
which  asserted  the  principle  of  religious  freedom,  as  then 
understood.  On  account  of  further  payments  made  to- 
wards finishing  the  fort,  he  was  released  from  the  quit- 
rent  and  the  island  relieved  from  taxes.  This  latter  was 
more  particularly  granted  in  consideration  "that  the  said 
island  lying  so  remote  from  any  fortified  place  within  the 
Duke's  territories,  so  that  they  cannot  expect  any  sudden 
aid  or  relief,  but  must  depend  upon  their  own  capacities, 
as  well  relating  to  men,  as  all  other  warlike  provisions 
for  their  defense  against  foreign  invasions,  or  disturbance 
by  the  natives  at  home."  The  island  was  thus  held  bv 
him  in  fee  and  as  an  absolutely  independent  state,  the 
smallest  in  America,  being  about  six  miles  long  and  one 
broad.  His  commission  as  Governor  for  life  was  soon 
after  confirmed. 

The  "Patent"  and  "Commission"  thus  granted  are  now 
on  file  in  manuscript  in  the  Capitol  at  Albanv.  Their  curi- 
ous and  interesting  character  renders  their  publication  here, 
from  copies  obtained  for  the  purpose,  as  peculiarlv  appro- 
priate, and  important  to  a  fuH  understanding  of  the  history. 


Sz  Paine    Genealogy. 

A  Patent  or  Confirmacon  of  Prudence  Island  Graunted 
unto  M.r  John  Paine. 

Francis  Lovelace  Esq.  one  of  ye  Gentlemen  of  his 
Matt*  Honb.u  Privy  Chamber  &  Governour  Genr."  under 
his  Royall  Highness — James  Duke  of  Yorke  &  Albany 
&c  :  of  all  his  Territoryes  in  America,  To  all  to  whom 
these  Presents  shall  come,  sendcth  Greeting : 

Whereas  there  is  a  certaine  Island  scituate  lying  &  being  in 
Narhygansett  Bay  comonly  called  and  known  bv  the  Indyan 
Name  of  Chebatevvesett  &  ye  English  Name  of  Prudence 
Island,  which  Stretcheth  itselfe  Lengthwise,  nearest  North 
and  South  in  the  said  Bay,  w"!1  said  Island  was  heretofore 
purchased  for  a  valuable  consideracon  of  the  Sachems  of  the 
Narhigansett  &  other  Indyans,  true  Proprieto™  thereof,  by 
the  Predecesso?  of  Air  John  Paine  &  himselfe,  in  the  Pos- 
session and  Occupation  of  whom  it  hath  Continued  for 
the  space  of  Thirty  Years  &  upwards  &  soe  doth  still  re- 
maine — And  the  said  Island  having  Received  an  Addi- 
ti  on  a  11  Improvement  by  the  means  and  encouragement  of 
the  said  Jn?  Paine — in  Selling  Severall  ffamilyes  there- 
upon, being  also  Capable  of  receiving  more,  wfh  said  Island 
hath  not  hitherto  been  legally  or  Certainly  under  the  Gov- 
ernmen1  or  Direction  of  any  of  his  Mau.e>  Colonyes,  but 
the  Proprieto?  thereof  have  kept  themselves  intire,  without 
any  such  dependency  untill  this  time — that  the  p'sent  Pro- 
prietor doth  suppose  upon  the  Increase  of  People  there, 
it  will  bee  requisite  to  have  some  forme  of  Lawes  amongst 
them  &  that  y*  said  Island  should  depend  upon  some 
Certaine  Government  for  Protection, — £  yc  said  p'esent 
Proprietor  John  Paine  having  been  made  acquainted,  that 
the  said  Island,  Together  w'!1  manv  other  Islands  in  those 
Parts,  are  included  in  his  Royall  Highness  his  Genr."  Pa- 
tent from  his  Ma**  as  by  a  Commission  under  the  Great 
Seale  of  England  appeares,  and  is  expressed  in  these  & 
other  inclusive  Words. — And  also  all  those  Severall  Is- 
lands called  and  knowne  by  the  Name  of  Martins  Vine- 
yard and  Nantukes  otherwise  Nantukett,  Together  w1!1  all 
the  Lands,Islands,Soyles, Rivers, Harbo?&c.  doth  properly 


Ipswich    Branch.  83 

belong  to  this  Province,  the  wc.h  is  likewise  the  Desire  of 
the  said  John  Paine  that  the  said  Island  and  Inhabitants 
should  bee  Govern'd  &  bee  under  the  Protection  of  his 
Royall  Highness,  the  wch  I  have  thought  fitt  and  reason- 
able to  Grant — Now  for  a  Confirmacon  unto  him  the  said 
John  Paine,  in  his  Possession  and  Enjoyment  of  the  said 
Island  and  Premisses  ; 

Know  Yee,  that  by  virtue  of  the  Commission  and 
Authority  unto  mee  given,  by  his  Royall  Highness, 
upon  whom  as  -well  by  the  Resignation  and  Assign- 
ment of  the  Heyres  of  William  Earle  of  Sterling,  as 
also  by  Grant  &  Patent  from  his  Royall  MaUe  Charles 
the  second,  ye  Propriety  &  Govern ml  of  Long  Island  Mar- 
tins Vineyard  &  Nantuckett  together  with  all  those  Lands 
&  Islands  amongst  other  things  is  settled,  I  have  given 
&  Granted  &  by  these  Presents  doe  hereby  Give,  Ratify 
Confirme  &  Grant  unto  ye  said  John  Paine,  his  Heyres  & 
Assignes  forever,  the  said  Island  called  Chebateweset 
or  Prudence  Island  &  Premisses,  to  bee  Erected  into  a 
Mannor  &  ye  Plantacons  &  Dwellings  thereupon  for  the 
future,  to  bee  called  &  known  by  the  Name  of  Sophy 
Mannor  together  with  all  ye  Lands,  Islands,  with  their 
Beaches  or  fflntts  to  the  lowest  Refluse  or  Ebbing  of  the 
Tydes,  wth  the  Soyles,  Woods,  Meadows,  Pastures,  Qiiar- 
reys.  Mines,  Mineralls,  (Mines  Royall  excepted) Marshes, 
Lakes,  Waters,  ffishing,  Hawking,  Hunting  &  ftbwling 
within  the  Bounds  &  Lymitts  of  the  said  Island  &  Prem- 
isses Contained  &  being  as  above  expressed  :  And  all 
other  Proffitts.  Commodityes,  Emoluments  &  Heraedita- 
ments  thereunto  belonging  or  in  any  wise  appertaining 
To  bee  holden  according  to  the  Mannor  of  East  Green- 
wich in  the  County  of  Kent  in  England,  in  Free  &  Com- 
mon Soccage  &  by  ftcalty  only,  and  the  said  Mannor  of 
Sophy  shall  be  held,  deemed,  reputed,  taken  &  bee  an  en- 
tire Enfranchised  Mannor  of  itselfe  &  shall  allwayes.  from 
time  to  time  have  hold  and  Enjoy  like  &  equall  Priveledges 
with  any  Mannof  within  the  Government ;  and  shall  in  noe 
Manner  or  anywise  bee  under  the  Rule, Order  or  Direction 
of  any  other  Place,  but  in  all  Matt115  of  Governm!  shall  bee 


84  Paine    Genealogy. 

Ruled,  Ordered  &  Directed  by  the  Governor  &  his  Conn- 
cell  or  the  Court  of  Assizes  only,  according  to  the  Instruc- 
tions, Directions  &  Priveledges  herewith  Given  and 
Granted  for  the  Governm*  of  that  Island,  to  y6  Good  & 
Welfare  of  the  Proprietor  or  Proprietor*  together  with  the 
Inhabitants  thereof. 

To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  Island  with  all  and  Sin- 
gular the  Appertenances  &  Premises,  together  w*  the 
Priveledges,  Immunities,  ffranchizes  &  Advantages  herein 
Given  &  Graunted  unto  the  said  John  Paine  his  I  ley  res 
&  Assignes  unto  the  Proper  use  behoofe  &  Benefitt  of 
him,  the  said  John  Paine,  his  Heyres  &  Assignes  forever, 
in  tfee  Simple,  as  a  Lawfull  Inheritance  forever,  fully, 
freely  and  clearly  in  as  Large  and  ample  manner  &  forme 
&  with'  such  full  and  absolute  Immunityes  &  Priveledges, 
as  before  is  exprest  &  as  if  hee  had  the  same  immediately 
from  his  Maa.e  the  King  of  England  or  his  Successo™  ; 

Yielding,  Rendring  &  Paying  yearly  and  every  yeare 
unto  his  Royall  Highness,  the  Duke  of  Yorke  &  his 
Heyres  or  Successo?  or  to  such  Governor>  or  Governo?as 
from  time  to  time  shall  bee  by  him  Constituted  and  Ap- 
pointed,as  a  Qiiitt  Rent,  the  Quantity  of  two  Barrells  of 
Syder  &  six  Couple  of  Capons. 

Given  under  my  Hand  &  Sealed  with  the  Seale  of  the 
Province,  at  fforte  James  in  New  Yorke,  this  25th  day  of 
July  in  the  24°*  Year  of  the  Reigne  of  our  Soveraigne 
Lord  Charles  the  Second  of  England,  Scotland,  rtrancc 
£  Ireland.  King,  Defender  of  the  flaith  &c  :  Annoq  Dom- 
ini 1672. 

(Seal.)  FRANCIS  LOVELACE. 


Orders  &  Priveledges  for  y"  Welfare  &  Good  Govern- 
in1  of  Prudence  Island. 

Francis  Lovelace  Esqr  Sic  :  Whereas  M.r  John  Paine 
Ownf  £  Proprietor  of  a  Certaine  Island  in  Xarh vgansett 
Kay.comonly  known  by  the  Indyan  name  of  Chebatewcsett 
Hi  by  the  English  Name  of  Prudence  Island,  hath  by  his 


Ipsivich  Branch^  85 

Predecesso™  and  himselfe,  Purchased  the  said  Island  of  the 
true  Indyan  Proprieto?  •  and  Possessed  &  improved  the 
same  for  above  thirty  years,  settling  diverse  ffamilyes  there- 
upon, at  his  Great  Expence  &  charges,  which  yet  is  capa- 
ble of  receiving  more,  and  hath,  out  of  his  Good  Inclinacon 
and  affection  to  promote  &  Augment  his  Royall  Highness 
(the  Duke  of  York's)  Interest  in  these  his  Territoryes,  in 
America,  not  only  Submitted  the  same  under  the  Dukes 
Protection  and  Government,  within  whose  Generall  Pa- 
tent the  said  Island  is  Comprized,  but  hath  advanced  & 
Paid  towards  the  Support  of  the  said  Government,  by 
Supplyes  of  Sundry  Natures  towards  the  Re-edifying  of 
ftbrte  James  in  New  York,  (particularly  of  Powder  to 
recruit  the  Store  of  the  said  fforte)  to  a  valluable  Consid- 
eracon,  in  these  times  of  Warr  abroad  ; 

Now  know  yee  that,  by  virtue  of  the  commission  &  author- 
itv  unto  mee  given  by  his  Royall  Highness,  I  have,  for  &  in 
respect  to  the  Consicleracons  before  exprest,  and  for  diverse 
other  Reasons  mee  there  unto  especially  moving,  as  also  for 
the  better  Assurance  of  the  said  John  Paine,  in  his  quiet 
Possession  and  -Enjoyment  of  the  said  Island,  called 
Prudence  Island  &  Premisses,  Given  &  Granted  unto  the 
said  Jn°  Paine  my  Patent  of  Confirmaeon  for  the  same 
And  withall  doe  give  and  grant  unto  him  the  said  John 
Paine,  his  Heyres  and  Assignes,  for  the  Regulations  of  all 
Affayres  thereupon,  these  ensueing  Orders  &  Priveledges 
Viz.* 

1.  Inprimis  :  That  the  said  John  Paine  as  Owner  and 
Proprietor  of  the  said  Chebatewesett  or  Prudence  Island 
shall  and  may  Peaceably  Possess  enjoy  and  improve  ye 
same, with  all  its  Premisses  and  Appertenances,  as  his  ftree 
Inheritance  to  the  only  proper  use,  behoofe  and   Benefitt 
of  him  the  said  John  Paine  his  Heyres  &  assignes  forever, 
as  in  the  Patent  is  exprest,  of  wch  said  Island  hee  is  to 
cause  a  Survey  to  bee  made  and  a  Platt  thereof,  contain- 
ing the  quantity  of  Ground,  to  bee  sent  hither. 

2.  That  hee  the  said  John  Paine  is  &  for  his  Lifetime 
shall  be  Governor  under  his  Royall  Highness  and  Chief 


86  Paine    Genealogy. 

in  Power,  in  and  over  the  said  Island,  both  in  Attayres 
Civill  &  Military  &  in  all  Votes  shall  have  the  Decisive 
or  Casting  Voice. 

3.  That  y*  said  John  Paine  in  Case  of  his  Absence  at 
any  time  from  the  said   Island,  about  his  other  ArTayres, 
shall  have  and  hereby  hath  Power  to  Constitute  and  Ap- 
point a  Deputy  in  his  Place  and  Stead. 

4.  That  y'  said  Governo'  together  \vth  the  Inhabitants 
of  the  said  Isl*  shall  have  and  hereby  hath  Power  to  make 
choice  of  two  or  three  Assistants,  &  also  inferiour  Offic™ 
both  Civill  «fc  Military,  \vch  Assistants  with  the  Governo' 
have  Power  to  make  and  Ordaine  such  Lawes  &  Ord™  as 
shall  bee  most  Necessary  &   Suitable  to  y*  Condicon  & 
Constitucon   of   the   Place   &   will   conduce   to   the   Well 
Governm'  of  the  People,  wrh  said   Lawes  &  Ord™  are  to 
bee  transmitted  unto  mee  or  such  other  his  Royall  High- 
ness his  Governor  as  shall  from  time  to  time  bee  here,  for 
a  Ratification  of  the  same  :     Provided  they  bee  not  Re- 
pugnant to  the  Lawes  of  England  nor  of  this  Government. 

5.  That  y«  Office™,  there  holding  Court,  shall  have  &. 
hereby  have  Power  to  hearc  &  Determine  any  Action  or 
Cause  of  Debt,  Damage,  Trespass  or  any  other  matter  or 
thing  whatsoever,   arising   or    happening   upon   the  said 
Island,  that  shall  not  exceed  fiftv  Pounds,  without  Appeale 
and  have  also  the  Power  of  Pillory,  Whipping.  Stocks  <fe 
other   inferiour  Corporall  or  Penall  Punishments  :     Hut 
in  all  cases,  exceeding  fiftv  Pounds,  if  appeale  bee  desired, 
upon  Security  for  Prosecution,  and  all  Criminalls.  extend- 
ing to  Life,  Limb  or  Member,  they  shall  bee   remitted  to 
y*  Gen'"  Court  of  Assi/es,  held  in  the  City  of  New  Vorke. 

6.  That  there  shall  bee  two  Courts  in  the  Yea  re  held 
in  the  said  Island,  v*  one  the  first   Mundav  in  Aprill.  y" 
other  the  Second   Mundav   in  October,  and  that  the  said 
Island  shall  have  noe  dependency  upon  any  Place  or  Per- 
sons within   this   Government,    but   immediately    k   onlv 
upon  the  Governo'  &  Councell  &  Gen"'  Court  of  Assi/.es, 
Constituted  by  y'  Authority  of  his  Royall    Highness  and 
Succenso™. 


Branch.  87 

7.  That  according  to  his  Ma*168  Gracious  Condescen- 
tion  &  his  Royall  -Highness  Particular  Instructions,  there 
shall  bee  free  Liberty  of  Conscience   Granted  to  all  In- 
habitants or  others  upon  the  said  Island,  professing  the 
Christian  Religion,  who  are   noe  way  to  bee  molested  in 
their  peculiar  way  or  forme  of  Worship,  those  dissenting 
from  the  way  of  Worship,  allowed  of  by  ye  Authority  of 
the  said  Place,  paying  equally  wth  the  rest  &  proportion- 
able to  their  Abilityes  and  Estates,  towards  all  Publick 
Charges  and  ye  Maintenance  of  the  same. 

8.  That  the  said  Island  lying  so  remote  from  any  for- 
tifyed  Place,  within  the  Dukes  Territoryes,  soe  that  they 
cannot   expect   any    Suddaine   Aid    or    Relefe,  but  must 
depend  upon  their  own  Capacity es,  as  well  relating  to 
Men  as  all  other  Warlike   Provisions,  for  their  Defence 
against  forraigne  Invasions  or  Disturbance  by  the  Natives 
at  home  :    And  in  Consideration  that  the  said  John  Paine 
in  behalfe  of  himselfe  &  all  others,  that  shall  or  may  bee 
concerned  herein,  hath  advanc'd  &  Paid  a  Considerable 
Vallue  towards  the  Supporte  of  this  Government  (besides 
the  Quit  Rent  in  his  Patent  exprest)&  towards  the  Re-edi- 
fying &  recruiting  of  Forte  James  in  New  Yorke  as  afore- 
said, which  I  doe  acknowledge  &   thereof  &  therefrom 
fully  freely  &  absolutely   Discharge,  Exonerate  &  Aquitt 
the   said  John  Paine  his   Heyres  &   Assignes  by  these 
Presents — I  have  &  by  these  Presents  doe  give  &  Grant 
unto  the  said  John  Paine  his  Heyres  &  Assignes  forever, 
That  the  said  Island   Prudence  is  &  hereafter  shall,  by 
these  Presents,  bee  discharg'd  Exonerated  &  Acquitted  off' 
and  from  all  &  all  manner  of  Taxes,   Rates  and  Assess- 
ments, Civill  or  Military  &  from  all  &  every  Demand  of 
any  kinde  or  Nature  whatsoever,  his  MatieB  Customs  ex- 
cepted,  which   are  to  be   Regulated,  as  all  other  Places 
within  the  Government,  by  the  Chiefe  Officers  here  and 
also  oft'  &  from  all  Trayning,  setting  forth  or  keeping  of 
Souldyers,  Horses  or  Armes  &  from  finding  or  affording 
any  other  Provisions  or  Assistance  whatsoever,  otherwise 
then  what  they  shall  voluntarily  doe  or  judge  fitt  to  bee 
done  for  their  own  Defence  upon  the  said  Island. 


88  Paine   Genealogy. 

To  have  hold  &  enjoy  y*  said  Island  called  Prudence  Island 
together  with  all  the  Priveledges,  Immunitycs,  ffranchi/es 
&  Advantages  Granted  to  the  same  (here  or  in  the  Patent 
exprest)full.  free  &  forever.  Rate  <te  Tax  free  as  aforesaid. 
Given  under  my  Hand  &  Sealed  with  the  Scale  of  the 
Province  at  Forte  James,  in  New  Yorke  on  the  Island 
Manhatans  in  America,  the  first  day  of  August  in  y*  24°* 
Yeare  of  the  Reignc  of  or  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles  y* 
2d  by  the  Grace  of  God  of  England  Scotland  ffrance  & 
Ireland  King  Defender  of  the  ffaith  &c  :  Annoq  Domini 
1672. 

(Seal.)  FRANCIS  LOVELACE. 


His  authority  and  government  were,  however,  of  short 
continuance.  His  grant  was  alleged  to  conflict  with  a 
previous  one  made  by  the  celebrated  Indian  Chief  Canon- 
icus,  in  1638,  to  Roger  Williams  and  Gov.  Winthrop,  and 
his  effort  to  exercise  authority  aroused  the  spirit  of  the 
Colony.  He  was  at  once  arrested  and  thrown  into  prison, 
but  released  on  bail.  At  the  Court  of  Trials  he  was 
indicted  under  the  law  of  1658  for  unlawfully  attempting 
to  bring  in  a  foreign  jurisdiction,  or  for  ''intrusion,"  for 
setting  up  a  new  government  within  the  limits  of  a  former 
one,  without  due  authority.  In  this  emergency  he  ap- 
pealed to  the  Governor,  Anit  he  had  no  power  to  stay  the 
proceedings,  and  Paine  was  put  on  trial  before  the  jury, 
lie  argued  his  own  case  in  writing,  but  it  was  unavailing, 
and  he  was  found  guilty.  Here  the  matter  stopped,  he 
retiring  from  the  conflict,  surrendering  his  position  and 
claim,  and  nothing  further  was  done  in  the  matter. 

The  written  argument  thus  offered,  and  his  letter  to  the 
Governor,  stamped  with  his  seal,  are  now  on  file  among 
the  manuscript  documents  preserved  at  the  State  Capitol 
at  Albany.  The  ingenious  and  "lawyer-like"  character 


Ipswich    Branch.  $9 

of  the  argument  properly  calls  for  its  introduction  here 
for  the  benefit  of  the  reader. 


Co-py  of  John  Paine 's  argument  before  the  Jury  on 
occasion  of  his  trial  for  '•'•  intrusion." 

John  Paine  answers  "Not  Guilty,"  and  refers  to  ye 
Court  and  Jury  and  Pleades  : 

Gent,  of  ye  Jury  ;  you'  know  yr  Place  and  duty  ;  you 
attend  to  ye  law  and  evidence  ;  you  are  ye  Subjects  Privi- 
lege. His  Majst  desires  not  ye  Extremity  of  Law  or  Evi- 
dence to  be  imposed  against,  (but  all  just  favor  to)  his 
loyall  Subject. 

I  am  indicted  for  taking  out  a  Patten  y*  I  never  did  ; 
nor  is  it  in  my  power  to  doe  ;  nor  have  I  been  a  person 
to  act  such  a  thing ;  nor  is  there  any  Evidence  y*  I  have 
received  such  a  thing  as  a  Patten  or  Commission  but 
heresayes  to  Some  thing  relating  to  some  wrighting  or 
commission  ; — but  how,  to  ye  time  or  other  condicions, 
no  man  saw  nor  red  such  a  thing,  but  in  some  part  as  one 
ses  (whome  I  would  he  were  here  to  clear  and  Explaine 
himself) — and  no  one  evidences  \rt  this  wrighting  was 
from  ye  authority  of  New  York  ;  that  it  had  ye  seal  or 
any  Confirmacion  of  y*  Government.  They  besides  are 
single  evidences. 

But  were  these  evidences  full  and  clear,  as  they  are  not, 
that  I  had  upon  demand  of  authority  by  virtue  of  a  Patten 
from  his  Majhe,  making  the  first  demand  of  me,  Recd  or 
accepted  of  a  Patten  to  subject  to  ye  King's  authority  this 
distinct  Place  and  Iseland,  no  man  evidences  that  I  have 
subjected  it ;  nor  have  I  done  any  act,  nor  is  there  any 
evidence  y*  I  have.  Nor  is  yr  any  evidence  that  I  have  in 
any  measure  contenancd  authority.  Nor  was  the  claime 
of  this  Jurisdiction  ever  made  to  me  till  now,  notwith- 
standing I  constantly  and  all  wayes  refused  to  pay  Rates, 
demanding  by  what  authority  it  did  appere  y*  I  was 
obliged  thereto. 

And  as  for  Mr.  Boston's  saying  I  desired  Execution 
might  not  proceed,  I  did  only  desire  it  might  proceed  then 


90  Paine    Genealogy. 

uppnn  some  estate  which  might  appcrc  of  mine  in  the 
Tonne  to  save  charges  of  officers  going  over,  if  y1  hee 
should  take  it. 

And  to  y*  law  which  I  never  heard  er  now  touching' 
any  Inhabitants  subjecting  his  lands,  I  never  was  ac- 
quainted with  yr  Law  ;  nor  was  an  Inhabitant  or  freeman 
or  so  looked  uppon  y'  I  know  ;  nor  ever  had  warning  or 
notes,  since  I  was  (for  about  15  vears)  concerned  in  ye  Ise- 
land,  of  any  appearance  of  either  Towne  or  Colonyes  con- 
cerne.  In  this  Jurisdiction — &  an  Iseland  so  remote  as  it  is. 

I  may  referr  itt  to  all  Reasonable  men  how  I  can  be 
reputed  a  breaker  of  the  Law.  or  contemner  of  an  Au- 
thority which,  as  often  as  I  have  been  on  this  Iseland,  did 
never  desire  me  to  submit  to  this  authority  by  the  Patten 
derived  to  ycm  from  the  King ;  nor  never  sent  officers  to 
proclaim  yr  authority  on  y*  Iseland,  or  declared  mee  to  be 
under  them,  or  warned  mee  oft'  y*  Iseland  to  appere  at 
any  time,  or  in  ani  Place  or  Public  meeting  to  be  informed 
thereof. 

And  let  it  not  be  offensive  if  I  remind  you,  Genu — that 
I  have  never  heard  of  ani  law  to  condemne  a  man  that  is 
but  passive  and  nowise  active,  for  having  a  wrighting  or 
Commission  in  his  hand,  (if  it  -jucrc  taken  for  Good  what 
evidences  have  said)  ;  that,  on  the  contrary,  ther  is  Law 
to  clear  nice,  for  in  the  next  Artickle  in  the  Patten  to  that 
of  ye  boundaries,  (as  I  humbly  do  conceive)  his  majtte, 
(as  if  he  had  foreseen  some  differences  likelv  to  arise  be- 
tween this,  and  his  other  Collonys),  doth  graciously  of 
his  Paternal  Care  prevent  this  Collony's  assuming  ther 
power  in  a  way  of  violence,  or  to  the  oppression  of  his 
subjects,  by  his  express  will  and  Pleasure,  signifying  to 
this  Collony,  that  that  shall  be  ther  way  of  Proceed  for 
matters  of  a  Public  concearne  y1  hath  relation  to  any  of 
his  other  Collonys,  that  they  appeal  to  himself  for  a  Re- 
dress. This  is  a  matter  of  a  Publique  concearne,  not  my 
private  difference.  I  desire  and  shall  Indeavor  a  comply- 
ancc. 

JNO.  PAINE. 

In  Court  delivered  y*  29  ()tobf,  1672. 


Ipsivich  Branch.  91 

Honble  Sr: 

— I  have  wrott  half  a  letter  more,  must  reffer  you  to  the 
next  opportunity  which  I  expect  will  be  Cap'  Bedle  in  a 
few  days.  By  him  I  hope  to  give  you  better  satisfaction 
of  ther  more  particular  kynd.  I  humbly  kiss  yr  hand  & 
Subscribe,  Sr,  yr  Faithful  Serv* 

JNO.  PAINE. 
Prudence  Iseland,  No  ye  4th,  1672. 


Mr.  Paine  is  related  to  have  died  at  sea  in  1675.  On 
Dec.  29.  1674,  he  made  a  deed,  and  the  Legislative  resolve 
making  him  a  grant  of  land  already  alluded  to,  was  passed 
in  May  following.  He  probably  died  soon  after.  His 
wife  had  died  before  him,  as  had  probably  also  his  three 
daughters,  or  at  least  we  have  no  information  concerning 
them  after  the  trust  deed  mentioned  made  for  their  benefit 
in  1669.  It  is  quite  apparent,  that  before  his  death,  he 
had  been  unfortunate  in  business  and  lost  his  property, 
though  there  is  no  certainty  that  it  was  so.  He  left  no 
will  and  no  administration  was  taken  out  on  his  estate. 
The  only  entry  in  Probate  is,  that  "Oct.  31,  1676,  Richard 
Knight  was  empowered  to  administer  upon  the  estate  of 
John  Paine  deceased."  He  had  four  children  : 

79.  William,  born  March  15,  1664. 

80.  Sarah. 
Si.      Hannah. 
82.     Anna. 

COAT  OF  ARMS. 

It  has  already  been  mentioned  in  a  previous  part  of  this 
work,  (Page  33),  that  both,  John  Paine  now  spoken  of, 
and  his  father,  used  the  Coat  of  Arms  known  as  "The 
Arms  of  Payne,  of  Market  Bosworth,  County  of  Leicester, 
and  of  the  County  of  Suffolk,"  thus  showing  the  identity 
of  their  linea<re  with  that  of  the  Leicester  and  Suf- 


92  Paine   GencaJogy. 

folk  family,  and  as  probable  successors  of  Hugh  de 
Payen  of  Templar  fame.  The  proof  of  this  fact  properly 
finds  a  place  at  this  point  of  their  history.  That  the 
father  did  so  use  it,  is  evidenced  by  the  "Collections  of 
the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society, "  among  which  are 
preserved  his  genuine  signature  and  seal ;  copies  of  which 
are  given  in  "\TOL.  vn.,  FOURTH  SERIES,"  on  page  vin., 
of  ^^  Fac  Similes  of  Signatures  and  Seals  "  as  published 
by  that  society. 

That  John  Paine,  the  son,  so  used  it,  is  also  evidenced 
by  Arnold's  History  of  Rhode  Island,  and  also  by  the 
Heraldic  Journal,  but  more  certainly  by  the  fact,  that 
the  documents  or  letters  already  described,  as  now  existing 
In 'the  State  House  at  Albany,  written  by  him  in  connec- 
tion with  the  Prudence  Island  business,  contain  both  his 
signature  and  seal  in  at  least  three  different  instances. 
As  used  bv  him,  the  seal  has  the  added  item  of  a  helmet 
introduced  between  the  shield  and  the  crest.  From  one 
of  these  papers,  the  following  engraving  of  a  photograph 
copy  of  both  seal  and  signature  has  been  executed.  * 


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(57.)  JOHN  PAINE,  son  of  Robert,  Sen.,  (43),  was 
born  at  Ipswich,  where  he  married  Elizabeth  Coggswell, 
Sept.  21,  1657  ;  was  admitted  to  the  artillery  company  in 
1666,  and  moved  to  Nantasket,  (not  Nantucket  as  stated 
by  Farmer,)  at  which  place  he  continued  to  reside  until 
his  death  on  July  13,  1677.  He  is  related  to  have  died 
at  sea.  This  may  be.  and  probably  is,  a  mistake,  arising 
from  the  fact  of  his  cousin  John  (55)  having  thus  died. 
The  inventory  of  his  estate  as  rendered  by  his  widow, 
taken  by  John  Appleton  and  John  Whipple,  is  on  rec- 
ord in  the  Probate  office  at  Salem,  dated  Oct.  25,  1677. 
This  same  John  Whipple  soon  afterwards  married  the 
widow.  Nothing  is  said  of  any  children  being  born  to 
her  first  husband,  and  the  conclusion  is  that  he  died 
childless. 

(58.)  ROBERT  PAINE,  Jr. >  son  of  Robert,  Sen.,  (43), 
was  also  born  at  Ipswich  ;  graduated  at  Harvard  Univer- 
sity in  the  class  of  1656,  and  studied  for  the  ministry. 
Whether  or  not  he  actually  practiced  his  profession  does 
not  certainly  appear,  but  Felt  speaks  of  him  as  "a  preach- 
er." On  July  10,  1666,  he  married  Elizabeth  Reiner. 
By  her  he  had  four  children,  viz.  ;  Elizabeth,  born 
June  15,  1677,  married  Daniel  Smith,  and  died  1717  ; 
John,  born  Oct.  24,  1684;  Robert,  who  died  Dec.  24, 
1693,  and  Dorcas,  who  married  Matthew  Whipple,  son 
of  Lt.  Col.  John  Whipple.  No  children  are  spoken  of 
as  born  to  either. 

Mr.  Paine  was  distinguished  as  the  foreman  of  the  Grand 
Jury  that  found  all  the  indictments  for  witchcraft  at 
Salem,  though  we  have  reason  to  believe  that  he  was  not 
an  active  prosecutor  of  the  accused,  or  if  at  any  time  he 
was  so,  he  changed  his  mind  before  his  death  and  took 
measures  to  allay  the  delusion. 


94  Paine   Genealogy. 

Upham,  in  his  ''History  of  Witchcraft,"  relates  that  in 
1692,  chief  among  the  causes  or  influences  which  finally- 
led  to  the  breaking  up  of  the  witchcraft  excitement,  was  a 
favorable  letter  written  to  Jonathan  Convin,  a  man  and 
judge  who  had  much  to  do  yvith  the  administration  of 
justice  at  the  time.  The  letter  had  great  yveight  in 
opening  the  eyes  of  those  who  read  it,  to  the  enormous 
wrongs  suffered  by  the  community  from  this  cause.  The 
argument  is  certainly  most  able  and  ingenious,  showing 
a  mind  of  great  strength  and  culture  worthy  of  an  age 
and  time  centuries  later.  The  original  document  is  still 
preserved  by  the  "Essex  Institute,"  at  Salem,  and  a  copy 
of  it  is  published  by  Mr.  Upham  in  his  history  noyv  re- 
ferred to.  It  bears  the  initals  of  "R.  P."  as  its  author, 
and  underneath  this  signature,  in  another  handwriting,  is 
written  the  name  of  "Robert  Paine."  Just  when  this 
name  was  written  is  not  known,  but  it  has  been  long 
there,  probably  ever  since  the  letter  has  had  a  public  ob- 
servation. The  authorship  of  Mr.  Paine,  however,  is 
denied  by  the  friends  of  Robert  Pike  who  lived  in  the 
neighboring  town  of  Salisbury,  where  it  bears  date.  Mr. 
Upham  enters  at  great  length  into  a  discussion  of  the 
matter,  and  sides  yvith  Mr.  Pike,  though  admitting  that  it 
bears  internal  evidence  "of  a  theological  education,  and 
a  familiarity  yvith  matters  that  belong  to  the  studies  of  a 
minister,"  yvhich  Mr.  Paine  was  and  Mr.  Pike  yvas  not. 
"Whoever  was  its  author."  says  Mr.  Upham.  "he  did  his 
duty  nobly,  and  stands  alone  above  all  the  scholars  and 
educated  men  of  his  time  in  bearing  testimony  openly, 
bravely,  in  the  very  ears  of  the  Court,  against  the  dis- 
graceful and  shocking  course  they  were  pursuing."  1  It- 
adds,  "if  composed  by  him  it  is  truly  a  marvelous  pro- 
duction, an  intellectual  phenomenon  not  easily  to  be 


Ipswich   Branch.  95 

paralleled."  The  fact  of  Mr.  Paine's  having  been  foreman 
of  the  jury  as  above  related,  is  taken  as  evidence  conclusive 
by  Mr.  Upham  of  his  not  being  the  author.  But  to  this 
view,  there  is  certainly  another  side  leading  to  an  oppo- 
site conclusion.  Such  a  mind  as  his,  educated  for  the 
gospel  ministry,  and  so  constantly  brought  in  closest  inti- 
macy with  the  accused  and  accusers,  could  not,  it  would 
seem,  fail  to  be  convinced  of  the  truth,  and  at  the  same 
time  of  his  duty  to  work  out  a  correction. 

Mr.  Pike  was  a  militarv  man,  wearing  the  title  of 
"Major,"  a  fact  which  very  properly  comes  into  consid- 
eration in  such  a  case,  especially  when  the  contestant  for 
the  prize  is  an  educated  man,  as  there  is  no  evidence  that 
Mr.  Pike  was,  and  admitted  to  be  of  a  theological  turn, 
such  as  the  composition  indicates.  The  internal  evidence, 
afforded  by  the  writing,  is  very  strongly  in  favor  of  him, 
whose  name  is  annexed  to  it,  and  the  conclusion  is  sup- 
ported by  all  the  facts,  that  the  interpretation  given  to 
"R.  P."  was  by  one  who  knew,  and  knowing  made  his 
knowledge  practical  in  the  way  he  did.  It  certainly  de- 
tracts much  from  the  weight  of  Mr.  Upham's  conclusion, 
that  his  reasoning  is  wholly  against  Robert  Paine,  Sen., 
the  father  and  not  the  son,  he  not  being  aware,  as  was  the 
fact,  that  the  father  had  been  dead  several  years  before 
the  letter  was  written.  This  change  of  person,  introduc- 
ing the  son  instead  of  the  father  as  a  competitor  with  Mr. 
Pike,  thus  a  vounger  man,  educated  for  the  ministry,  as 
the  document  evidences  its  author  to  be,  the  conclusion 
can  hardly  be  resisted  that  Robert  Paine  and  not  Robert 
Pike  was  the  writer  of  the  article  in  question,  as  the  paper 
itself  witnesses. 


Paine   Genealogy. 


CHAPTER     XIII. 
GENERATION  III. 

WILLIAM  PAINE,  (79).  son  of  John  (55),  was 
born,  probably  at  Boston,  March  15,  1664;  mar- 
ried Ruth  Grover.  March  9,  1691,  who  was  born  in  1667. 
He  removed  to  Maiden  where  the  records  show  him  to 
be  living  during  all  his  manhood.  His  wife  died  April 
n,  1722.  at  the  age  of  55^  years.  He  died  April  14. 
1741.  at  the  age  of  77.  No  administration  seems  to  have 
been  taken  out  on  his  estate.  They  had  two  children  : 

83.  William^  born  (probably)  Nov.   16.  1692. 

84.  Jo/in,  born  1701. 

GENERATION  IV. 

(83.)  WILLIAM  PAINE,  son  of  William  and  Ruth 
(79),  was  born  at  Maiden,  Nov.  16.  1692,  and  died  Jan. 
29,  1784,  at  the  age  of  92  years,  though  there  is  some 
doubt  about  the  day  of  his  birth.  He  had,  at  least,  the 
reputation  of  being  much  older  than  that,  some  stories 
giving  him  as  long  a  life  as  105  years.  The  dates  of  his 
birth  and  death,  as  now  given,  are  those  which  are  the  most 
reliable.  He  was  a  man  of  great  vigor  of  mind,  strong 
constitution,  obstinate  and  determined,  and  a  devoted 
friend  of  freedom.  Many  stories  are  told  of  him  in  con- 
nection with  these  traits  of  character. 

At  the  time  that  Washington  was  stationed  in  front  of 
Boston  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Revolution,  on  occasion  of 
an  alarm,  he  marched  thither  with  his  son  and  grandsons 
to  volunteer  in  the  service,  being  then  about  83  years  old. 


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The  old  gentleman  was  introduced  to  the  General,  who 
enquired  of  him  why  he  had  come  to  camp.  "I  come," 
said  he,  "to  encourage  my  son  and  grandsons  and  see 
that  they  do  their  duty  to  their  country." 

He  was  born  in  Maiden,  and  lived  there  until  after  the 
birth  of  four  children,  when  he  removed  into  Norton,  into 
that  part  which  was  afterwards  incorporated  into  the  town 
of  Mansfield.  At  the  time  of  his  removal,  the  country 
was  new  and  much  infested  with  wild  animals,  and  queer 
stories  are  told  of  his  adventures.  On  one  occasion  it  is 
said  of  him  that  hearing  in  the  night  a  pack  of  wolves 
howling  around  his  house,  he  opened  the  window  and 
fired  "his  king's  arm  "  into  their  midst.  An  increased 
howl  was  the  consequence  and  the  morning  revealed  the 
strange  fact,  that  fourteen  dead  wolves  were  found  lying 
around  the  premises.  Not,  as  is  added,  that  his  one  shot 
had  been  so  fatal,  but  that  the  wounded  ones,  in  their  rage, 
added  largely  to  the  number  of  the  dead.  The  story, 
though  probably  somewhat  exaggerated,  yet  has  enough 
of  truth  undoubtedly  in  it,  to  give  some  idea  of  the  state 
of  the  country  at  the  time,  and  the  dangers  which  our 
fathers  had  to  encounter,  even  in  the  immediate  neigh- 
borhood of  Boston. 

He  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Tabitha 
Waite,  whose  birth  took  place  in  1692,  marriage,  April 
18,  i7J7i  and  who  died  April  7,  1721,  at  the  early  age  of 
29  years,  leaving  an  only  son  : 

85.  William  Paine,  born  June  26,  1720. 

He  married  for  his  second  wife  the  widow  Elizabeth 
Sweetsir,  on  Nov.  6,  1722,  at  Maiden,  by  whom  he  had 
five  children  : 

86.  Elizabeth,  born  in  1723,  married  Dea.  Benjamin 

Williams. 

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98  Paine   Genealogy. 

87.  Edward,  born  in  1724. 

88.  Thomas,  born  in  1726,  March  27.  and  died  young. 

89.  Ruth,  who  married  Eleazer  Fisher. 

90.  Susannah,  who  married Putter. 

The  first  three  were  born  in  Maiden,  and  the  last  two 
in  Norton. 

(84.)  JOHN  PAINE,  brother  of  the  next  preceding, 
was  born  in  1701,  married  Abigail  —  — ,  1724,  and 
died  Feb.  25,  1753.  They  had  five  children,  as  follows: 

91.  John,  born  Dec.  15,  1726, -died  in  a  few  weeks. 

92.  Abigail,  born  Feb.  17,  1728,  died  Aug.  2,  1738. 

93.  Hannah,  born  Jan.    23,    1731,  died  August  10, 

1738. 

94.  Rachch  born  Feb.  14,  1737-8. 

95-      Jacob,  born  July  7,  1743,  died  Aug.  13,  1775. 
GENERATION  V. 

(85.)  WILLIAM  PAINE,  son  of  William  andTabitha, 
(83),  the  only  child  of  his  mother,  was  born  at  Maiden. 
June  26,  1720,  and  married  Mary  Bull,  of  Foxboro.  in 
1743.  He  was  a  man  of  astonishing  industry  and  perse- 
verance, of  great  firmness  and  independence,  xealous  in 
religious  matters  and  loyal  to  the  cause  of  freedom.  With 
his  aged  father  and  two  or  three  of  his  own  sons,  he  vol- 
unteered to  march  to  Boston  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war, 
and  during  the  war,  it  is  said,  several  of  his  sons,  at  one 
time  or  another,  were  found  engaged  in  it.  His  wife, 
too,  is  represented  as  a  "woman  of  remarkable  strength 
of  mind  as  well  as  of  body,  strong  mental! v  and  phvsic- 
ally,  strong  in  her  friendships  and  strong  in  her  prejudices, 
a  very  good  woman,  and  very  useful  in  the  neighborhood. 
She  was  looked  up  to  as  a  woman  of  superior  judgment, 
but  somewhat  of  a  tyrant,  of  great  personal  industry,  and 
yet  a  great  reader.  Her  personal  appearance  was  pre- 


Ipswich  Branch.  99 

possessing  and    impressive   and    her   eyes   brilliant   and 
sparkling  to  the  last." 

Many  stories  are  told  of  the  husband,  which  go  to 
characterize  him  as  a  member  of  society.  When  the 
bass-viol  was  introduced  into  the  choir  of  the  church, 
where  he  attended,  he  would  go  out,  whenever  it  was 
played.  "He  would  not  sit  still  and  hear  the  fiddle 
scraped  in  the  house  of  God." 

It  was  related  of  him  that  he  once  bought  a  farm  while 
the  Continental  currency  was  in  circulation  and  gave  his 
notes  payable  in  it.  When  his  notes  matured,  the  bills 
had  become,  not  only  greatly  depreciated,  but  at  last, 
almost  worthless.  Still  he  kept  his  promise  "to  the  letter" 
and  paid  as  he  had  agreed.  "He  eyed  the  hand  of  Provi- 
dence in  the  depreciation  of  the  paper  money." 

"He  did  more,"  writes  a  correspondent,  "with  his  own 
hands,  to  make  the  wilderness  blossom  as  the  rose,  than 
any  other  man  in  town,"  and  notwithstanding  his  extreme 
old  age,  he  continued  to  work  till  within  a  few  days  of 
his  death.  He  died  suddenly  July  17,  1811,  his  wife 
having  preceded  him  to  the  grave  only  a  few  months 
before,  in  Feb.,  1810,  after  having  lived  together  in  mar- 
ried life  67  years.  He  died  at  the  age  of  94.  They  had 
1 2  children  : 

96.  William,  born  Nov.  13,  i743?  married  late  in  life 
a  lady  of  nearly  his  own  age  and  died  without  issue. 

97.  Mary,  born  June  10,  1745,  and  died  in  infancy. 

98.  John,  born  Aug.  20,  1746- 

99.  Lemuel,  born  April  4,  1 748. 

100.  Jacob,  born  Feb.  7?  I75°- 

101.  James,  born  Sept.  30,  1751. 

1 02.  Mary,  born  May  8,  1753- 

103.  Ablel,  born  Nov.  20,  1754. 


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104.  Isaac,  died  in  infancy. 

105.  Asa,  born  1758. 

1 06.  Jcrusha,  born  March  10.  1760,  never  married. 

107.  Hannah,  born  Aug.  9,  1763,  never  married. 
(87.)  EDWARD    PAINE,   son   of    William   (83)    and 

Elizabeth  his  second  wife,  was  born  at  Foxborough,  April 
18,  1724,  married  Elizabeth  Tiffany,  June  24,  1746.  and 
died  Jan.  29,  1784,  aged  60  years.  He  lived  all  his  life 
in  Foxboro,  nearly  all  the  time  on  the  farm  adjoining  the 
town  line  of  Mansfield.  They  had  ten  children,  as  fol- 
lows : 

108.  Joseph,  married  Mary  Conner. 

109.  Joel,  married  Azubah  Williams. 

no.  Enoch,  born  in  1752.  married  Thankful  Morse. 

111.  Jemima,  married  Isaac  Richardson. 

112.  Rachel,  married  Jacob  Grover. 

113.  Olive,  married  Amasa  Grover. 

114.  Sally,  married -  Day. 

115.  Jesse,  b.  March   18,  1759.  m.  Polly  Robinson. 

116.  Edward,  born  April  8.  1761  m.  Abigail  Smith. 

117.  Z,ebediah.  married  Sarah  Richardson. 

(89.)  RUTH  PAINE,  daughter  of  William  (83)  and 
Elizabeth,  married  Eleazer  Fisher  and  had  three  children, 
daughters,  Ruth.  Rebecca  and  Molly,  all  of  whom  died 
unmarried. 

(95.)  JACOH  PAINE,  son  of  John  (84).  was  born 
July  7.  1743.  married  Sarah  Brown.  Oct.  12.  1769.  and 
died  Aug.  13.  1775.  He  lived  in  Maiden  and  died  child- 
less. 


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CHAPTER    XIV. 
GENERATION  VI. 

JOHN  PAINE,  (98),  son  of  William,  (85),  was  born 
at  Foxboro,  Aug.  20,  1746,  married  Rhoda  Well- 
man,  of  Boston,  who  died  in  1842.  at  the  age  of  93  years. 
He  died  Sept.  25,  1822,  at  the  age  of  76,  at  Marshfield. 
They  had  six  children,  as  follows  : 

118.  Sarah,  born  Jan.  2,  1781. 

119.  Achsa,  born  Nov.  2,  1783. 

1 20.  Jane,  born  Nov.  2,  1783. 

121.  Sullivan,  born  July  27,  1785. 

122.  Rachel,  born  July  5,  1790. 

123.  Eunice,  born  July  5,  1790. 

(99.)  LEMUEL  PAINE,  son  of  William,  (85),  was 
born  April  4,  1748,  married  Rachel  Carpenter,  who  was 
born  Jan.  31,  1757,  and  died  Sept.,  1828.  He  died  at 
Foxboro,  Dec.  22,  1794.  They  had  seven  children,  as 
follows : 

124.  Lemuel,  born  Dec.  2,  1777. 

125.  Otis,  born  Aug.  26,  1779. 

126.  Asa,  b.  July  28,  1781,  died  in  boyhood,  at  13  yrs. 
127..    Esther,  born  Oct.  25,  1783. 

128.  Frederic^  born  Nov.  21,  1785. 

129.  Lucas,  born  Feb.  28,  1787,  died  in  six  hours. 

130.  Rachel,  born  Aug.  2,  1789. 

After  the  death  of  Mr.  Paine,  his  widow  married  for 
her  second  husband,  DBA.  ISAAC  PRATT,  of  Wrentham, 
May  4,  1797.  by  whom  she  had  three  children  : 


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An  infant  son  who  died  without  a  name. 

131.  Eunice  Pratt,  who  married  Willard  Plimpton. 

132.  Amanda,  who  died  unmarried  at  the  age  of  22  yrs. 
Mr.  Plimpton  died  Nov.  5,  1877,  at  the  age  of  83  years, 

leaving  four  children:  Willard  P.,  born  May  7.  1821, 
married  Clarissa  M.  Wright ;  Ann  Eliza,  horn  Nov.  10. 
1823.  married  Julius  Carroll ;  Ellen  Maria,  horn  Feb.  10. 
1828,  married  Henry  A.  Field  and  John  M.  Pcckett,  and 
Frederick  Sanford.  horn  Feb.  22,  1834.  married  Lucy 
J.  Pratt. 

(100.)  JACOB  PAINE,  son  of  William  (85),  was  born 
at  Foxboro,  Feb.  7,  1750,  married  Hannah  Morse,  June  5, 
17^4.  He  was  represented  as  a  man  of  fine  intellect  and 
fond  of  argument.  He  had  a  large  family  of  children,  all 
born  in  Foxboro,  after  which  he  removed,  with  several  of 
them,  to  Paris.  Oxford  Co.,  Maine.  Having  resided  there 
a  few  years,  he  removed  to  the  neighboring  town  of 
Greenwood,  where  he  resided  until  his  death  on  June  5. 
1836,  at  the  age  of  86  years.  His  wife  survived  until 
1848.  He  was  an  active  business  man  and  sustained  a 
high  character  for  integrity  and  correctness  of  life.  They 
had  ten  children,  as  follows  : 

133.  Stephen,  born  Dec.  27,  1776. 

134.  Mary,  b.  Jan.  24.  1 778,  d.  single  1870.  see  ( 140) . 

135.  haac.  born  May  24,  1780. 

136.  /)a niel,  born  April,  1782. 

137.  /)avis,  born  June,  1784. 

138.  William,  born  Sept.  16,  1790. 

139.  Nathan,  born  July  14.  1792. 

140.  Asa  M.,  born  Feb.  19,  1794. 

141.  Turner,  born  June  20,  1796. 

142.  Kcziah.  born  Feb.  19,  1798. 


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(101.)  JAMES  PAINE,  son  of  William  (85),  was  born 
at  Foxboro,  Sept.  30,  1751,  married  Anna  Richards,  of 
Sharon.  He  died  July  24,  1800,  at  Foxboro,  at  the  age 
of  49.  She  died  Oct.  20,  1836,  act  79.  They  had  three 
children,  all  of  whom  died  childless : 

143.  James,  born  March  6,  1785. 

144.  Robert    W.,  born  June  30,  1788,   died  Feb.  3, 
1850,  unmarried. 

145.  Abijah,  born   Oct.    19,  1794,  died  at  the  age  of 
40  years,  unmarried. 

(102.)  MARY  PAINE,  daughter  of  William  (85), 
was  born  May  8,  1753,  married  Amos  Boyden,  of  Fox- 
boro, and  had  one  child,  a  daughter. 

146.  Hannah,  who   married  Roger  Sumner.     They 
had  one  daughter  who  married  John  Davenport,  of  Wil- 
ton, at  the  age  of  60,  where  the  line  ceases.     Mr.  Boyden 
married  a  second  wife,   Amy  Morse,   and    died  Feb.  5, 
1823.     Hannah,   born   1781,   died  Feb.   4,    1799.     Mrs. 
Davenport,  alive  in  1879,  at  the  age  of  So  years. 

(103.)  ABIEL  PAINE,  son  of  William  (85),  was  born 
Nov.  30,  1754?  married  Cynthia  Robinson,  of  Foxboro, 
and  died  Jan.  3,  1840,  at  the  age  of  86  years.  She  died 
Oct.  30,  1826,  after  which  time  he  lived  with  his  two 
maiden  sisters,  (106  and  107),  all  three  of  whom  arrived 
at  almost  four-score  and  ten  years.  He  was  one  of  tkthe 
boys"  that  went  to  the  war,  and  his  name  was  in  the  list 
of  pensioners,  under  the  general  government.  He  was  a 
man  rather  small  in  stature,  of  great  integrity,  industrious 
and  active,  and  a  "true  Christian."  They  had  seven 
children,  viz.  : 

147.  Cynthia,  born  Oct.  2=;,  1779. 

148.  Catharine. 

149.  Lucinda,  born  Sept.  5.  1782. 


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150.  Emerson*  born  Dec.  5,  1786. 

151.  A  polios. 

152.  Daniel. 
153-  Zina  G. 

(105.)  ASA  PAINE,  son  of  William  (85),  was  born 
Feb.  3,  1757;  married  Patty  Bacon,  daughter  of  Elias 
Bacon,  of  Wrentham.  Me  died  May  i,  1810,  aged  53 
years.  She  died  Oct.,  1839,  at  the  age  of  91  years,  having 
been  born  Feb.  18,  1747.  They  had  six  children  : 

154.  Har-cey*  born  July  4,  1793. 

155.  Asa   Warren*  born  Dec.  3,  1795. 

156.  Elias  Bacon*  born  Dec.  13,  1797. 

157.  Martha  Z1.,  born  June  12,  1799. 

158.  Joseph  Add  i  son*  born  May  24.  1802. 

159.  Nathaniel  Ware*  born  Jan.  3.  1806. 

( 1 06  and  107.)  JBRUSH A  PAINE  and  HANNAH  PAINE, 
(laughters  of  William  (85),  were  born  at  Foxboro,  the 
former  March  10,  1760,  and  the  latter  Aug.  9,  1763. 
The  former  died  Jan.  26  1851,  at  the  age  of  91  years,  and 
the  latter  June  18,  1853,  at  the  age  of  90  years.  Neither 
of  them  was  ever  married,  but  both  of  them  lived  together, 
in  single  blessedness,  all  their  long  lives,  in  the  same  house 
in  which  thev  were  born,  and  in  which  they  died.  During 
all  their  lives,  the  straw  business  was  the  great  industry 
of  Foxboro,  and  both  earned  their  livelihood  by  it,  the 
one  in  splitting  and  the  other  in  braiding  the  article,  neither 
knowing  how  to  practice  the  other's  trade.  Though 
within  an  hour's  ride  of  Boston  by  rail,  yet  neither  of  them 
ever  enjoyed  a  sight  of  the  city.  "Aunt  Jerusha"  and 
"Aunt  Hannah"  will  never  be  forgotten,  during  the  life 
of  the  longest  liver  of  their  day,  for  they  were  famed  for 
their  industry  and  all  Christian  graces. 


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(108.)  JOSEPH  PAINE,  son  of  Edward  (87),  married 
Mary  Comer,  and  died  March  17,  1787.  They  had  six 
children  : 

160.  Rhoda,  born  July  26,  1776. 

161.  Sally,  born  May  13,  1778. 

162.  Joseph,  born  Nov.  14,  1780. 

163.  Mary  or  Polly,  born  April  7,  1783. 

164.  Nancy,  born  Feb.  21,  1785. 

165.  Submit,  born  May  31,  1787. 

(109.)  JOEL  PAINE,  son  of  Edward  (87),  married 
Miss  Azubah  Williams,  of  Mansfield,  and  died  about 
1807,  having  had  eight  children  : 

1 66.  Peddy. 

167.  Roxalina. 

1 68.  Betsey,  married  William  Story. 

169.  Polly. 

170.  Hosea,  born  in  1792,  and  died  in  1812,  aged  21. 

171.  Williams. 

172.  Joel. 

173.  Nelson. 

(no.)  ENOCH  PAINE,  son  of  Edward  (87),  married 
Miss  Thankful  Morse,  Nov.  17,  1779,  and  died  Nov.  9, 
1822.  She  died  Nov.  5,  1833.  Children  : 

174.  Amos,  born  Sept.  3,  1780. 

175.  Elizabeth,  born  Jan.  31,  1782. 

176.  Isaac,  born  April  8,  1786. 

177.  Lois,  born  Aug.  12,  1791. 

178.  Esther,  born  Feb.  23,  1802. 

(in.)  JEMIMA  PAINE,  daughter  of  Edward  (87), 
married  Isaac  Richardson,  May  4,  1786,  and  had  four 
children : 

179.  Allen  Richardson,  born  Feb.  12,  1789. 

1 80.  Isaac, 


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181.  Nancy,  born  Nov.  3,  i  796. 

182.  Fanny,  born  June  15,  1804. 

(112.)  RACHEL  PAINE,  daughter  of  Edward  (87), 
married  Gideon  Grover,  about  1773,  and  by  him  had  two 
daughters : 

183.  Fanny  Grover,  married  Isaac  Tiffany. 

184.  Nancy,  married  Dea.  Samuel  Williams. 
Gideon  Grover    then    died,  and  Rachel,  his  widow, 

married  Jabez    Grover,  in    i  780,  and    by  him  had  two 
children,  and  died  : 

185.  Calvin  Grover,  married  Ruth  Billings. 

1 86.  Sally,  married  Lemuel  Starkey. 

(113.)  OLIVE  PAINE,  daughter  of  Edward  (87), 
married  Amasa  Grover,  of  Foxboro,  and  had  six  children  : 

187.  Amasa  Grover,  born  Aug.  9,  1786. 

188.  Willard  P.,  born  April  27,  1789. 

189.  /V<?5/0»,b.Feb.2,i  791,111. Martha  T. Paine  (157). 

190.  Nancy,  b.  June  3,  1795,  m.  Wms.  Paine  (171). 
i  9  i.  Albion,  born  Sept.  8.  i  798. 

192.  Luther,  born  March  3,  1804. 

Her  husband  died  in  I  806,  when  she  married  the  above 
named  Jabez  Grover,  the  second  husband  of  her  sister 

(112). 

(115.)  JESSE  PAINE,  son  of  Edward  (87),  born  March 
1 8,  1759,  married  Polly  Robinson,  May  19,  1785.  sister 
of  Mrs.  Abiel  Paine  (103).  He  died  Dec.  13,  1848,  at 
Chelsea,  Vt.,  and  she  at  Vershire,  Aug.  i  i.  i  847.  He 
served  in  the  Revolutionary  war  and  was  a  pensioner. 
They  had  fifteen  children,  all  but  three  of  whom  were 
married  and  had  families  : 

193.  Earl,  born  Oct.  9,  i  785. 

i  94.     Sally,  born  March  22,  i  787. 
195.     David,  born  Nov.  8,  i  788. 


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196.  Polly,  born  July  17,  1790. 

197.  Joseph,  born  April  21,  1792. 

198.  Clarissa,  born  Jan.  4,  1794. 

199.  Sophia,  born  Sept.  12,  1795- 

200.  Hosea,  born  May  21,  1797,  d.  at  14  years  of  age. 

201.  Robert,  born  Jan.  23,  1799- 

202.  Marinda,  born  Sept.  23,  1800,  d.  at  19}'.  of  age. 

203.  Warren,  born  Sept.  13,  1802. 

204.  Loney,  born  Aug.  18,  1804. 

205.  Edward,  born  July  6,  1806. 

206.  Isaac,  born  April  26,  1808. 

207.  Cynthia,  born  July  6,  1810,  died  Feb.  8,  1857, 
unmarried. 

(116.)  EDWARD  PAINE,  son  of  Edward  (87),  born 
April  8,  1761,  at  Foxboro,  married  Abigail  Smith,  of 
Leicester,  Vt.,  where  he  afterwards  lived  until  his  death 
on  March  26,  1827.  Mrs.  Paine,  born  June  6,  1769,  died 
Jan.  19,  1852,  at  the  age  of  83  years.  They  had  twelve 
children,  all  born  at  Leicester  : 

208.  Thaddeus,,  born  Nov.  14,  1788. 

209.  Abigail,  born  Oct.  18,  1790. 

210.  Ed-ward,  born    Oct.   25    1792,  died  March  26, 
1827,  unmarried. 

211.  Lois,  born  May  31,1 794. 

212.  Enoch,  born  Dec.  29,  1796. 

213.  -  John,  born  June  30,  1798. 

214.  Asa,  born  Aug.  26,  1801. 

215.  Roxana,  born  May  30,  1803. 

216.  Ichabod,  born  Dec.  15,  1804. 

217.  David,  born  Aug.  21,  1806. 

218.  Eliza,  born  Feb.   25,   1808,  died  June  9,  1845, 
unmarried. 

219.  Olive,  born  Nov.  21,  iSn.  died  July  25,  1812. 


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(117.)  ZEBKDIAII  PAINE,  son  of  Edward  (87),  mar- 
ried Sarah  Richardson,  of  Foxboro.  afterwards  removed- 
to  Westmoreland,  N.  II.,  where  he  died  having  eight 
children,  all  of  whom  married,  and  all.  except  Sally,  re- 
sided in  Westmoreland  : 

220.  .\fclzar,  married  Polly  Blanchard. 

221.  Zebediah,  married  Nancy  Hutchins. 

222.  Isaac,  married  Polly  Chapin. 

223.  Sally,  married  —        -  Ozier. 

224.  Esther,  married  Asahel  Reed. 

225.  Olive,  married  Charles  Tuel. 
226      Mi/lie,  married  Leonard  Edson. 
227.     Polly,  married  Phineas  I  lodges. 


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CHAPTER   XV. 
GENERATION  VII. 

SARAH  PAINE,  (nS),  daughter  of  John,  (98),  was 
born   at   Foxboro,  Jan.  2,    1781,  married  Simeon 
Grover,  and  died  Nov.   10,   iS63,  at  the  age  of  83  years, 
having  five  children  : 

228.  Simeon    Grover.  who   married  Abigail  Hager, 
and  had  three  children  ;   Ed^vin.  Ellen  and  Emery,  and 
is  still  alive  ;  resides  in  Newton. 

229.  Edwin,  who  died  unmarried. 

230.  Sarah,  who  married  David  Williams,  and  had 
three  sons;  David  L..  Henry  H.  and  Edwin  L.,  all 
dead. 

231.  Louisa,  who  died  young. 

232.  John  P..  who  married  a  Mrs.  Hart,  and  is  still 
alive,  but  without  children.      Resides  in  Newton. 

(119.)  ACHSA  PAIXE.  daughter  of  John,  (98),  and 
twin  sister  of  Jane.  (120),  was  born  at  Foxboro,  Nov.  2, 
1783,  married  Alanson  Witherell,  and  died  July  8,  1871, 
at  the  age  of  88  years,  having  four  children  : 

233.  Francis   B.    Witherell.   who    married    Harriet 
Hutchinson  and  Betsey  Babbitt,  and  had  five  children. 

234.  Oliver  S..  who  married  Mary   Heath,  Jan.    i. 
1846.  and  had  five  children. 

23 v  Ivors  L..  who  married  Eunice  S  Pike,  Sept.  2. 
1845.  and  have  two  children,  all  living  in  Norway.  Me. 

236.  Susan  J/.,  who  married  Israel  H.  Paine,  (286), 
April  25,  1854,  and  have  one  child. 


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(120.)  JANE  PAINE,  daughter  of  John  (98),  and 
twin  sister  of  next  preceding,  was  born  Nov.  2,  1783, 
and  married  Joseph  Williams,  of  Mansfield,  and  had 
eleven  children  : 

237.  Jane  Williams,  who  died  unmarried. 

238.  Albert,  who  m.  Mary  Dunham  and  had  one  son. 

239.  Lydia,  who  married   Samuel  Richardson,   and 
had  several  children. 

240.  Adaline,  who  married  William  N.  Spinney,  and 
had  four  children. 

241 .  Amelia,  who  m.  Samuel  Fisher,  and  have  one  son. 

242.  Frederick,  who  lives   in    Bedford.    Ohio,    and 
never  married. 

243.  George,  who  is  married,  but  has  no  children. 

244.  Julius,  unmarried, — dead. 

245.  Angelinc,  married  Stephen  Roscoe,  and  have  a 
daughter. 

246.  Gustavus,  never  married. 

247.  Sally,  never  married. 

(121.)  SULLIVAN  PAINE,  the  only  son  of  John  (98). 
was  born  Aug.  25,  1785.  and  married  Nancy  Harding, 
in  1806,  and  died  Oct.  15,  1870,  at  the  age  of  85.  She 
died  May  17,  1844.  He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  born 
at  Mansfield,  lived  for  ;t  while  in  Wrentham.  but  died  at 
Stoughton.  Their  children  were: 

248.  George  P.,  who  died  in  infancy. 

249.  Henry  J/.,  born  Sept   28,  1810. 

250.  George  S.,  born  Sept.  i,  1814. 

251.  Aehsa  A.,  born  OcL    7.    1816,    still    alive  and 
unmarried. 

(122.)  RACHEL  PAINE,  daughter  of  John  (98),  was 
born  July  5,  1790.  and  is  still  alive,  the  only  remaining 
member  of  her  grandfather  William  and  Tabitha's  dc- 


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scendants  in  her  generation.  She  married  late  in  life,  her 
cousin,  Dr.  Isaac  Paine,  (135),  and  had  no  children.  To 
her  the  writer  is  largely  indebted  for  much  of  the  infor- 
mation which  this  volume  contains.  Her  marriage  took 
place  May  26,  1837,  an(^  ^er  husband  died  Jan.  5.  1869. 
123.  EUNICE  PAINE,  twin  sister  of  the  next  preceding, 
was  born  July  5,  179°'  married  Stephen  Hovey,  of  Bev- 
erly, who  died  leaving  her  a  widow.  She  died  April  18, 
1864,  at  the  age  of  74,  having  had  two  children  : 

252.  Sarah^          ) 

>-  both  of  whom  died  unmarried. 

253.  Charlotte,    \ 

(124.)  LEMUEL  PAINE,  son  of  Lemuel  (99),  was 
born  at  Foxboro,  Dec.  2,  1777  ;  married  Nov.  28,  1805, 
Jane  T.  Warren,  daughter  of  Judge  Warren,  of  Foxboro, 
who  was  the  brother  of  Gen.  Warren,  of  Bunker  Hill 
fame.  He  graduated  at  Brown  University  in  1803,  and 
studied  law  with  David  Gilbert,  Esq.,  of  Mansfield,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  due  course.  Immediately  after 
his  marriage,  he  removed  to  Winslow,  in  the  County  of 
Kennebec,  Maine,  performing  his  journey  thither  in  a 
sleigh  the  whole  distance.  There  he  bought  a  farm 
which  he  afterwards  cultivated  all  his  life,  and  at  the 
same  time  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  the  practice  of 
his  profession.  For  a  while  he  was  copartner  in  business 
with  Gen.  Ripley,  a  man  who  afterwards  distinguished 
himself  as  an  officer  in  the  War  of  1812.  In  this  course 
of  life  he  continued  till  his  death,  a  man  of  great  industry, 
remarkable  for  his  scholarship  and  general  intelligence, 
as  also  for  his  genial  character  and  his  many  virtues. 
He  aided  largely  in  establishing  and  sustaining  the  College 
at  Waterville,  and  was  always  a  firm  and  active  supporter 
of  all  educational  enterprises  within  his  reach.  He  held 
a  seat  for  one  term  in  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  in 


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1810.  and  during  the  year  1829.  was  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Council  of  Maine.  Throughout  his  life  he 
was  very  generally  and  frequently  employed  as  arbitre  or 
referee  in  matters  of  dispute,  and  never  failed  as  such  to 
give  satisfaction,  for  his  decisions  came  to  be  regarded, 
by  both  sides,  as  exact  justice,  and  hence  acquiesced  in 
accordingly.  His  wit  was  proverbial,  and  it  was  one  of 
his  agreeable  pastimes  to  set  it  off  in  rhyme.  On  one 
occasion,  he  rendered  his  decision,  in  a  case  referred  to 
him,  all  in  verse,  including  a  statement  of  the  case,  the 
argument  of  counsel,  and  his  decision,  with  the  amount  of 
damages  and  costs.  No  objection  was  made,  of  course, 
to  its  acceptance  and  performance.  He  often  indulged  in 
this  propensity,  to  express  in  rhyme  his  censure  of  par- 
ticular acts  and  persons.  Among  those  now  at  hand,  are 
the  following  as  specimens  : 

"111  bodes  that  house  however  great. 

However  blest  with  riches  ; 
Where  niggard  meanness  sneaks  within. 
Or  Madam  wears  the  breeches." 

Copy  of  lines  written  in  the  Court  House.  1809. 

"How  various  are  thy  ways.  Oh.  Lord  ! 

To  humble  human  pride — 
We  read  recorded  in  thy  word. 
And  see  exemplified. 

When  Israel's  sons  too  haughty  grew. 

Thou  mad'st  them  Pharaoh's  drudges  ; 
To  us  more  culpable  than  those, 

Thou  givest  tools  for  judges." 

Being  invited  to  write  an  appropriate  epitaph  for  the 
gravestone  of  a  lately  deceased  neighbor,  he  at  once 
penned  the  following : 

"If  Heaven  is  ple.isud  when  sinners  cease  to  sin, 
If  Hell  is  pleased  when  sinners  enter  in. 
If  1 '.in  ili  is  pleased  when  dies  the  rebel  knave, 
All  three  were  pleased  when  D — 1 —  tilled  this  grave." 


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He  was  ever  an  active  politician  of  the  Old  Federal 

School,  and  "was  never  ashamed  of  his  party."     Of  lib- 

• 

eral  Christian  views,  he  gave  no  one  credit  for  any  religious 

character,  further  than  it  was  evidenced  by  sincere  acts 
of  a  good  life. 

On  the  I pth  of  July,  1852,  having  spent  the  day  act- 
ively employed  in  haying,  and  not  returning  to  supper  as 
usual,  he  was  sought  by  one  of  the  family,  who  found  him 
lying  in  a  natural  position,  but  lifeless,  upon  a  bed  of  hay, 
with  his  rake  by  his  side,  in  the  calm  sunshine,  with  no 
sign  of  suffering,  but  as  if  quietly  asleep.  His  wife  sur- 
vived her  husband  until  April  19,  1860,  when  she  died  at 
the  age  of  83  years.  They  had  three  children  : 

252.  Ebenezer  Warren,  born  Dec.  13.  1808,  died 
July  13,  1830 

2^3.     Henry   William,  born  Aug.  30.  1810. 

254.     Edward  Augustus,  born  Nov.  27,  1816. 

(125.)  OTIS  PAIXE,  son  of  Lemuel  (99),  was  born  at 
Foxboro,  Aug.  26,  1779.  He  was  a  man  of  great  inge- 
nuity and  inventive  genius.  His  name  is  often  found 
among  the  inventors,  in  the  Patent  Office,  at  Washington. 
He  largely  interested  himself  in  perfecting  inventions  for 
the  application  of  steam  power  to  machinery.  He  was 
quite  intimatelv  connected  with  Robert  Fulton  in  that 
work,  but  to  what  extent  can  not  now  be  determined. 
In  a  letter  written  from  New  Jersey,  to  a  friend  at  home, 
(the  last  that  was  ever  heard  from  him) , under  date  of  Jan. 
i.  1816,  he  speaks  of  his  invention  of  a  ''steam  battery" 
which,  with  one  Col.  Hatch,  he  "went  to  Washington 
with,  and  which  met  the  approbation  of  Commodores 
Decatur.  Barney  and  Perry,  and  that  the  celebrated  Fulton 
also  approved  of  it,  who  agreed  to  join  Col.  Hatch  in  it, 
but  instead  went  to  Government,  got  $500,000  appropri- 


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ated  for  the  purpose,  and  has  built  one  at  New  York  on 

the  same  principle,  which  is  now  ready  for  sea,  and  is 

• 
highly  approved  by  all."     Upon  reference  to  the  Patent 

Office  Reports,  they  show  that  Fulton,  just  at  that  time, 
secured  his  patent  for  the  improvement,  claimed  by  Mr. 
Paine,  but  how  much  credit  the  latter  was  entitled  to,  for 
his  part  of  the  invention,  will  never  be  known. 

Soon  after  that  letter  was  written,  all  traces  of  Mr. 
Pa i ne's  whereabouts  were  lost,  and  no  certain  knowledge 
exists  as  to  his  subsequent  life  or  his  death.  Vague  stories 
are  told  of  his  having  been  married  and  having  children, 
but  no  confidence  can  be  placed  in  any  such.  ,  The  whole 
of  lire  subsequent  life  is  in  darkness. 

Though  not  blessed  with  the  advantages  of  a  liberal 
education,  he  was,  by  no  means,  devoid  of  a  literary  turn 
of  mind,  but  exhibited  rare  traits  in  that  direction.  Allu- 
sion is  particularly  made  to  a  work  published  by  him  in 
1813.  entitled,  ''True  and  Infernal  Friendship."  contain- 
ing 176  pages,  12  mo.,  being  a  most  severe  and  bitter 
satire,  in  neat  pentameter  verse,  consisting  of  an  allegory, 
in  which  the  serpent  plays  a  conspicuous  part,  overcom- 
ing Eve  and  her  spouse  in  the  garden. 

( 1 27.)  ESTHER  PAINE,  daughter  of  Lemuel  (99).  was 
born  Oct.  25,  1783,  married  Jesse  Boyden,  in  1802.  and 
died  May  7.  1863,  and  had  four  children  : 

255.  Mary  Ann  Hoyden,  born  Dec.  !/•  1803.  who 
married  Mason  White, and  had  five  children  :  Harriet  .I/., 
born  fan.  6.  1825;  Mary  Ann.  born  July  10,  1827: 
Elizabeth  M..  born  May  30.  1829:  Esther  7V.,  born 
May  18.  1834.  and  Ellen  //..  born  May  15,  1837.  all  of 
whom  except  the  first  were  married. 

2^Cy.  Ariel  .I/.,  born  Aug.  7.  1806,  married  Caroline 
S.  Freeman.  1844.  and  had  one  child.  Abief  Jesse,  born 
Aug.  25,  1849,  died  young. 


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257.  Harriet  E.,  married  Nathan  N.  Crocker,  Oct.  23, 
1832.  and  had  four  children  :  N.  Henry  Crocker,  born 
Aug.  16,  1833:  Ariel  B..  born  March  18.  1835;    Wil- 
liam B.,  born  Oct.  i,  1836.  and  Harriet  J/..  born  May 
22,  1840,  all  married  except  the  last. 

258.  Esther  J\f.,  who  died  Aug.  5,  1834.  ri  years  old. 
Mr.  Bovden  died  Dec.  8,  1862,  at  age  of  82  years. 

(128.)  FREDERIC  PAINE,  son  of  Lemuel  (99),  was 
born  Nov.  21,  1785.  at  Foxboro,  Mass.,  married  Abiel 
Ware,  a  descendant  of  old  Robert  Ware,  of  Wrentham, 
on  Sept.  21,  1809,  and  removed  to  Winslow,  Maine,  with 
his  brother  Lemuel  (124),  and  there  resided  during  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  a  cooper  by  trade,  but 
during  his  whole  life,  he  devoted  a  large  portion  of  his 
time  to  agricultural  pursuits.  In  1815,  he  was  appointed 
post-master  of  Winslow,  a  place  which  he  held  for  about 
30  years.  He  was  also,  for  many  years,  the  treasurer  of 
the  town.  In  1818,  the  two,  with  another  couple,  alone, 
joined  to  form  a  church  of  the  Congregational  order,  and 
were  both  ever  afterwards  active  members  of  it,  and  for- 
ward in  every  work  connected  with  it.  Their  house  was 
always  open  for  the  entertainment  of  all  ministers,  and 
nothing  ever  gave  them  greater  pleasure  than  to  entertain 
them  on  the  old  church  plan  of  "free  and  welcome." 
They  were  consequently  constant  church-goers,  their  pew 
being  never  vacant,  and  seldom  less  than  full.  Storm 
and  cold  afforded  no  excuse  for  non-attendance,  but  ever 
an  additional  reason  for  promptness  in  the  opposite  direc- 
tion. Their  religion  was  of  a  kind  free  from  all  bigotry, 
but  liberal  in  practice  and  charitable  towards  all.  Mrs. 
Paine  was  born  at  Wrentham,  Dec.  6,  1787,  and  died 
Jan.  12,  1852.  at  the  age  of  64  years.  He  died  on  the 


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i  2th  day  of  March,  1857,  at  the  age  of  71  years.     They 
had  eight  children  : 

259.  Charles  Frederic,  born  June  18.  1810. 

260.  Albert  Ware,  born  Aug.  16.  1812. 

261.  Benjamin  Cro'vningshicld,  b.  March  10.1815. 

262.  Caroline  ^fatilt{a,  born  Nov.  2.  1817. 

263.  Harriet  Nciucll,  born  Jan.  i.  1822. 

264.  Timothy  Otis,  born  Oct.  13,  1824. 

265.  Charlotte  Elizabeth*  born  Feb.  13.  1827. 

266.  Sarah  Jane,  born  Jan.  10,  1830. 

(130.)  RACHEL  PAIXE,  daughter  of  Lemuel  (99). 
was  born  Aug.  2.  1789,  married  Harvey  Partridge,  Nov.  6, 
1814,  and  removed  to  Warwick,  Mass..  where  they  re- 
sided until  death.  He  died  March  28.  1862.  and  she, 
Aug.  30.  1858.  They  had  seven  children  : 

267.  Jlar-cey  Pratt  Partridge,  born  July  28,  1815, 
married  Adclia  E.  Dering,  Feb.,  1839,  aiu'  second  wife, 
Annie  L.  Shope,  of  St.  Louis,  and  had  three  children  : 
Sarah  Adelia.    William  //.,  and  Ella  Agnes. 

268.  Angclihe*  born  Jan.  15,1817,  died  Aug.  26, 1833. 

269.  Lucas  W..  born  March  1 1 . 1816.  married  Martha 
S.  Wheeler,  died  July  i.  1862. 

270.  Lcvina,  born   Nov.  30,     1819.    married   Daniel 
1  Icy  wood,  March  4.  1845,  and  had  four  children  :  Hannah 
E..  Frances  D..    William  //.  and  George  /\ 

271.  Horace,  born  May  27,  1822.  married  Martha  A. 
Stratton.   and   had   five  children  :    ycnnv   Li  ml.    Frank 
Pcircc.  Xcllie  Rosalie^  Lizzie  Lucille  and  Horace. 

272.  Amanda    Pratt,  born   Nov.    8,    1824.    married 
Addison  Sherwin,  died   March   24.    1^79.   and   had   five 
children  :   Robert  Addison.    Olivia  Amanda,  Frederic 
//..   George  II.  and  Flora  Estc/fe. 


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273.  Sarah  Gilman,  born  May  19,  1833.  died  Jan.  2 2, 
1834. 

(133.)  STEPHEN  PAINE,  son  of  Jacob  Paine  (100). 
was  born  in  Foxboro,  Dec.  27,  1776,  married  Abigail 
Morse,  Oct.  16,  1798,  who  was  born  May  23,  1781,  and 
died  in  1857.  He  removed  to  Paris,  Me.,  with  his  father, 
and  -spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  there,  and  died  in  1859, 
at  the  age  of  82.  They  had  six  children  : 

274.  Otis,  born  Sept.  29,  1799,  died  in  1844,  married, 
but  without  issue. 

275.  Hartford,  born  June  26.  1802.  died  in  1818. 

276.  Abigail,  born  March  29,  1807. 

277.  Stephen,  born  1816.  died  at  the  age  of  19,  in  1835. 

278.  Elisha,  born  Feb.  10,  1824,  died  in  20  days. 

279.  Elizabeth,  born  Feb.  10,  1824,  twin  of  Elisha. 
(135.)     ISAAC  PAINE,  son  of  Jacob  Paine  (100),  was 

born  at  Foxboro.  May  24,  1780.  He  was  twice  married. 
His  first  wife,  of  whom  all  his  children  were  born,  was 
Abigail  A.  Thomas,  daughter  of  Dea.  Briggs  Thomas,  of 
Marshfield,  born  June  16,  1780,  and  died  Dec.  14,  183:;. 
His  second  wife  was  his  cousin,  Rachel  Paine  (122),  who 
is  still  alive  in  1881.  He  was  a  physician  of  much  emi- 
nence, practicing  at  Marshfield.  He  was  a  student  of 
genealogy  and  took  a  great  interest  in  that  of  his  own  lin- 
eage. Though  he  spent  much  time  and  labor  in  the 
search,  he  failed,  like  all  others,  in  ascertaining  the  true 
origin  of  his  American  line  and  settled  upon  a  wrong 
conclusion.  His  papers  have  afforded  the  writer  much 
aid  in  his  investigations.  He  died  Jan.  5,  1869,  at  the 
age  of  89  years.  His  first  marriage  took  place  Oct.  27. 
1807,  and  his  second.  May  13,  1837.  By  his  first  wife 
he  had  seven  children  : 

280.  Roland  G.,  born  Oct.  30.  1808. 


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281.  Kt'iggs  T.,  born  Aug.  5,  1810. 

282.  Calvin  B.,  born  Sept.  12,  1811. 

283.  Isaac,  Jr.,  born  July  9,  1813,  died  in  1827. 

284.  Abigail,  born  June  21,  1815,  died  in  1827. 

285.  Waterman,  born  Sept  25,  1816.  died  in  1820. 

286.  Israel  II.,  born  June  28,  1822. 

(136.)  DANIEL  PAINE,  son  of  Jacob  (100),  born 
April,  1782,  married  Mary  Paine,  of  Rehoboth.  and  died 
in  1826,  without  issue.  He  was  ship-master  and  died,  on 
a  voyage,  at  Porto  Bello. 

(137.)  DAVIS  PAINE,  son  of  Jacob  (100),  was  born 
June,  1784,  and  married  Charlotte  Hathaway,  of  Scituate, 
Mass.  Resided  in  Woodstock,  Me.,  and  had  ten  children  : 

287.  Davis,  born  April  15,  1808. 

288.  James,  born  May  7.  1810. 

289.  Mary,   born    April   25.    1812,    married    Crosby 
Curtis,  and  has  one  child. 

290.  William,  b.  March  12,  1814.  died  without  issue. 

291.  Charlotte,  born  Jan.  I,  1816.  m.  Daniel  Curtis. 

292.  Hartford,  born  Oct.  8.  1818. 

293.  Jacob,  born  Jan.  4,  1821. 

294.  Silas,  born  Oct.    12,  1822.  lives  in  Woodstock, 
Me.,  unmarried. 

295.  Paulina,  born  May  5.  1825.  m.  Stephen  Hacon. 

296.  Fanny,  born  Jan.  8.  1829,  died  May  9,  1829. 
(138.)     WII.MAM    PAINE,    son  of  Jacob  (100).  was 

born  Sept.  15.  1787.  married  Anna  D.  Stanley,  Jan.  11. 
1807.  He  was  killed  by  the  fall  of  a  tree,  in  the  woods,  at 
Farmington,  Me..  Feb.  8,  1824.  His  wife,  born  April  12. 
1784.  and  died.  Dec.  5.  1830.  They  had  six  children  : 

297.  Hannah  /:.,  born  July  11.  1810. 

298.  Cynthia  C..  born  Nov.  25,  1812. 

299.  William  /)..  born  March  26,  1815. 


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300.  Daniel  S.,  born  Aug.  3,  1817. 

301.  Horace,  born  April  n,  1823  . 

302.  Henry,  born  April  n,  1823,  died  April  30, 1823. 
(139.)     NATHAN   PAINE,    son   of   Jacob   (100),  was 

born  July  14,  1792,  married  Susan  F.  Dingley,  in  1811, 
and  lived  and  died  in  Worcester,  Mass.  Was  in  the  Texas 
war  and  was  wounded.  Children  : 

303.  Charles  1VI.,  born  Dec.  i,  1812. 

304.  Henry  M. 
30^.      George  P. 

306.  Hannah  M. 

(140.)  ASA  M.  PAINE,  son  of  Jacob  (100),  born  Feb. 
19,  I794-  settled  in  Greenwood,  Me.,  with  his  father. 
Never  married,  but  after  their  parent's  death,  he  and  his 
sister  Mary  (134),  lived,  both  single,  at  the  old  homestead 
until  their  deaths.  She  died  in  1870.  During  that  time 
they  adopted  and  brought  up  seven  children. 

(141.)  TURNER  PAINE,  son  of  Jacob  (109),  born 
June  20,  1796*  married  Nancy  Fisher,  and  died  in  18^7. 
leaving  one  son  : 

307.  Daniel  J/. 

(142.)  KEZIAH  PAINE,  daughter  of  Jacob  (100),  was 
born  February  19,  i79^'  married  Benjamin  Jackson,  of 
Woodstock,  Me.,  Jan.  12,  1815.  and  there  they  reside. 
Their  children  are 

308.  Caroline  C.  Jack  son  *  born   October    17.    1818, 
married  John  Cummings. 

309.  Mahala  F.,  born  March  5.  1823.  m.  John  Day. 

310.  Benjamin,  born  Sept.  9,  182=5. 

311.  Susan*  born  June  19.  1830. 

312.  Nelson,  born  April  n,  1833. 

313.  CharJes  P.,  born  Aug.  19.  1837. 


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(143.)  JAMES  PAINE,  son  of  James  (101),  was  born 
at  Foxboro,  Mass.,  March  6, 1 785,  married  Anna  Richards, 
of  Sharon,  and  died  Dec.  i,  1831,  leaving  his  wife  a 
widow,  who  died  June  i,  1850.  He  was  a  man  of  great 
goodness  of  character,  and  highly  prized  as  a  citizen,  a 
person  of  fine  physique  and  manly  qualities.  They  had 
no  children,  save  only  a  still-born  infant,  whose  loss  the 
parents  greatly  deplored,  and  over  whose  grave  they 
erected  an  appropriate  tombstone  with  an  expressive  in- 
scription. The  wife  and  mother's  head-stone  records  that 
''She  was  a  professor  of  Religion,  and  bequeathed  her 
property  to  the  cause  of  missions." 

(147.)  CYNTHIA  PAINE,  daughter  of  Abiel  (103). 
was  born  Oct.  25,  1779.  married  Joseph  Tiflany.  and 
had  three  children  : 

314.  Joseph  Tiffany  j  also  a  son  and  daughter,  whose 
names  are  not  known  to  the  writer. 

(150.)  EMERSON  PAINE,  son  of  Abiel  (103),  was 
born  Dec.  5.  1786,  married  Lydia  R.  Pcndleton.  April 
30,  1816.  She  was  born  Sept.  20,  1792.  He  graduated 
at  Brown  University  in  1813.  During  the  high  party 
times  which  existed  during  the  War  of  1812,  he  delivered 
an  address  of  a  political  character,  which  gave  very  great 
oilense  to  his  opponents,  and  largely  affected  all  his  sub- 
sequent life.  "It  was  visited,"  writes  his  son,  "upon  him 
in  various  ways  in  his  after  life,  by  political  opponents  of 
his  class,  and  caused  much  trouble  to  him,  even  involving 
danger  to  life  of  himself  and  family."  He  studied  for  the 
ministry,  and  for  a  while  preached  in  Abington,  as  asso- 
ciate pastor  with  Rev.  Mr.  Niles.  He  afterwards  settled 
in  Middleboro  for  six  years,  then  in  Little  Compton,  R.  I., 
for  14  years,  and  finally  in  Halifax,  Mass.,  about  10  years. 
His  health  failing  him.  he  preached  only  occasionally, 


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until  his  death,   on   April   25,    1851.      His  wife  survived 
him,  and  died  March  24,  1876.     They  had  five  children  : 

315.  Joseph  E.,  born  Oct.  20,  1817. 

316.  Charles  H.,  born  Jan.  5,  1820. 

317.  Horatio  E.,  born  June  n,  1822. 

318.  Mary  TV.,  born  Nov.  27,  1823. 

319.  Sarah,  born  Sept.  24,  1830,  died  at  2  yrs. of  age. 
(151.)     APOLLOS  PAINE,   son   of  Abiel    (103),    was 

born  at   Foxboro,  and  married  a  Miss  Harding.     They 
died,  having  had  three  children  : 

320.  Luna. 

321.  Jane. 

322.  Anna. 

(152.)  DANIEL  PAINE,  son  of  Abiel  (103),  was  also 
born  at  Foxboro,  and  married  Sarah  Brown,  of  Little 
Compton,  R.  I.,  in  1824.  He  died  in  1826,  leaving  no 
children. 

(153.)  ZINA  G.  PAINE,  son  of  Abiel  (103).,  born  at 
same  place,  married  Mary  Tompkins,  of  Little  Compton. 
R.  I.,  in  about  1822.  He  was  a  physician  of  consider- 
able eminence,  and  practiced  a  few  years  at  Taunton, 
then  at  Fowlerville,  N.  Y.,  afterwards  at  Parma,  and 
finally  at  Lockport,  where  he  died  in  March.  1865.  They 
had  several  children,  among  them 

323.  Mary  T. 

324.  Charles. 

32 v       William  Henry. 

Any  further  particulars  of  the  family  the  writer  has 
been  unable  to  gather,  though  very  many  efforts  have 
been  made  in  that  direction. 

(154.)  HARVEY  PAINE,  son  of  Asa  (105),  was  born 
at  Foxboro,  July  4,  1793,  married  Hannah  Forrest, 
Feb.  25,  1823.  He  afterwards  settled  in  Amenia,  N.  Y., 


122  Paine    Gcnealogv. 


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where  he  died  May  18,  1839.  leaving  four  children,  all. 
hut  the  youngest,  now  living  in  Amcnia  : 

326.  Hannah  Maria,  born  Nov.  25.  1823. 

327.  Eliza  Bnrrill,  horn  Jan.  25,  1826. 

328.  Pamela  Forrest,  born  Feb.  23.  1828. 

329.  yoscph   Harvey,  born  April   28.    1830,  went  to 
California  in  1851,  and  has  since  never  been  heard  from. 

(155;.)  ASA  WARREN  PAINE,  son  of  Asa  (105),  was 
born  at  Foxboro,  Dec.  3,  1795.  and  died  in  Newton, 
April  19,  1847.  He  was  never  married.  He  was  a  man 
of  intellectual  turn  of  mind,  and  though  not  having  what 
is  called  a  liberal  education,  he  was  yet  a  man  of  much 
culture,  and  of  scholarly  habits.  He  was  of  a  misan- 
thropic nature,  and  ill  at  ease  with  himself  and  the 
world.  He  eschewed  all  religious  creeds,  and  finally 
became  the  disciple  of  his  namesake,  Thomas  Paine, 
whose  works  he  greatly  admired,  as  it  is  said.  He  was 
a  lawyer  by  profession,  practising  at  the  Boston  bar,  but 
residing  at  the  time  in  West  Newton.  He  traveled  much 
throughout  the  Eastern  Continent,  and  especially  in 
Egypt,  at  a  time  when  such  travel  was  rare  and  traveling 
correspondents  unusual.  During  these  meanderings  he 
became  quite  famed  for  his  letters  to  the  public  press  at 
home,  written  over  his  well  known  signature  of  "Rcis 
EfVendi."  In  the  short  obituary  over  his  grave,  allusion 
is  made  to  his  character  as  exhibited  "in  public  station." 
This  goes  to  confirm  the  information  otherwise  obtained, 
that  while  absent,  abroad,  he  was  consular  agent  of 
government,  at  Alexandria.  The  certainty  of  this,  how- 
ever, the  writer  has  been  unable  to  determine.  His  body 
lies  in  the  burial  ground  at  Foxboro.  his  tombstone  bear- 
ing the  following  inscription  : 


Ipswich  Branch.  123 

A  SISTER'S  MEMORIAL 

IN 

Loving  Memory 

OF 

ASA  WARREN  PAINE,  ESQ. 

Born  Dec.  3.  1795. 
Died  at  West  Newton,  April  19,  1847. 


A  Sound  Lawyer  :  a  discreet  Counsellor  : 

In  professional  life. 
Ever  true  to  duty  ;   in  action  faithful  ;  in  honor  clear. 

In  public  station 
Vigilant,  prudent,  wise  and  honest. 

Filling  places  of  trust 
With  credit  to  himself  and  honor  to  his  country. 

Of  polite  as  well  as  profound  learning 
He  was  both  the  ornament  and  patron. 

In  all  the  relations  of  life 

His  conduct  was  uniform  and  consistent. 

He  lived  beloved — he  died  lamented. 


(156.)  ELIAS  BACON  PAINE,  son  of  Asa  (105),  was 
born  at  Foxboro,  Dec.  13.  1797.  married  Emmeline 
Wheelock,  and  died  at  Boston,  March  3,  1868.  He  was 
a  wholesale  dry  goods  merchant  of  that  city,  for  many 
years,  during  all  which  he  maintained  a  high  character 
for  integrity  and  trustworthiness,  and  was  a  general  fav- 
orite ''with  the  trade."  They  had  eight  children  : 

330.  Emmeline   Warren,  who  died  in  infancy. 

331.  Joseph   Warren,  born  March  20,  1832. 

332.  Emmeline   Wheelock,  born  June  2.  1834. 
3323.   Elias  Edwin,  died  in  infancy. 

332b.   Helen  TrvpJicna.  died  in  infancy. 


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333-  Georgianna^  born  Oct.  3.  1840. 

334-  Janc  Frances,  born  Dec.  23.  1842. 

335-  Antoinette  E/iza.  horn  July  n,  1844. 

(157.)  MARTHA  T.  PAINK.  daughter  of  Asa  (105). 
was  horn  June  12,  1799.  married  Preston  II.  G rover, 
and  died  Nov.  3,  1873,  without  children.  They  resided 
at  Springfield,  Mass. 

(158.)  JOSKPII  Annisox  PAINE,  son  of  Asa  (105), 
was  born  May  24,  1802.  married  Julia  O.  Dudley,  a 
descendant  of  Gov.  Dudlev.  lie  resided  at  one  time 
in  Waterville.  Me.,  thence  went  West,  and  tinallv  settled 
in  Salem,  Mass.,  where  he  died  July  14,  1872.  He  left 
five  children  : 

336.  Joseph  Addison. 

337.  Isabella. 

338.  Frank, 


,  twins. 

339.  Frances. 

340.  Julia,  died  unmarried. 

(159.)  NATHANIEL  WARE  PAINE,  son  of  Asa  (105), 
was  horn  Jan.  3,  1806,  and  died  Nov.  2,  1870.  was  twice 
married,  first  to  Abigail  Ann  G  rover,  and  after  her  death, 
to  Lucv  D.  Paine,  but  had  no  children  bv  either. 

*  - 

(160.)  RIIODA  PAINK.  daughter  of  Joseph  (108). 
born  July  26.  1776,  married  Lemuel  Wight,  and  died  in 
1848.  at  the  age  of  72  years.  He  died  in  1851,  at  the 
age  of  82  vears.  They  lived  in  Foxboro.  where  thev  had 
four  children  born,  and  then  removed  to  Westmoreland. 
N.  II.,  where  eight  more  were  added  to  the  list: 

341.  Willnrd  Wight,  born  Dec.  8.  1795. 

342.  Foster,  born  Jan.  18.  1797. 

343.  Joseph  Xclsott,  born  Oct.  11.  1798. 

344.  /W/yor  J/tfry,  b.  .Sept.  12.1800,111. Asa  Hartshorn 
34  v      Guilford. 


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346.  Herman. 

347.  Stilman. 

348.  Rhoda  Maria. 

349.  Caroline. 

350.  Albert. 

35 1 .  Hartshorn . 
3^2.  Nancy. 

(161.)  SALLY  PAINE,  daughter  of  Joseph  (ioS),boni 
May  13,  1778,  married  Oliver  Leonard,  and  had  three 
children  : 

353.  Oliver  Leonard^  born  Oct.  4,  iSbi. 

354.  Sally,  born  Dec.  10,  1804. 

355.  Arville,  born  March  29,  1808. 

(162.)  JOSEPH  PAINE,  son  of  Joseph  (i  08),  born  Nov. 
14,  1780,  married  Nancy  Carpenter,  who  died  Aug.  u, 
1821.  He  died  Dec.  u,  1811,  having  one  child: 

356.  Richard,  born  May  25,  1806. 

(163.)  MARY  OR  POLLY  PAINE,  daughter  of  Joseph 
(108).  born  April  7.  1783.  married  Harvey  Pattee.  and 
died,  having  seven  children  : 

3^7.      Maria  Pattee,  born  Jan.  27.  1804,  d.  unmarried 

3>S.      Caroline,  born  June  9.  1805. 

359.  Wm.    Warren,  born  July  25,  1808,  d. unmarried 

360.  James  Harvey,  born  Aug.  22,  1810. 

361.  Charles,  born  May  n,  1814. 

362.  Nancy  Jane,  born  April  20,  1817. 

363.  Eliza,  born  Aug.  i.  1819. 

(164.)  NANCY  PAINE,  daughter  of  Joseph  (108), 
born  Feb.  21,  178=;.  married  Richard  Hartshorn,  of 
VValpole;  Mass,  and  died  July  3.  1835.  He^lied  April 
1 8,  1854,  having  had  nine  children  : 

364.  Charles  Hartshorn,  b.  Nov.  17.  1807,  m.  thrice. 
36^.     Albert,  born  May.  i.  1809,  died  in  1810. 


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366.  Richard,  born  Jan.  15.  1811.  married  thrice. 

367.  George,  born  Feb.  12.  1814.  married  thrice. 

368.  Warren,  married. 
360.     Aff//f)'.  married. 

370.  Newell,  born  July  1 2.  1821,  married  thrice. 

371.  Mary,  born  July  18,  1824,  married. 

372.  Hannah,  born  Feb.  2,  1826.  married. 

(165.)  SUBMIT  PAINE,  daughter  of  Joseph  ( 1 08). born 
May  31,  1787  ;  married  Amos  Morse,  Jr.,  and  died  May 
ii.  1862.  He  died  Oct.  30.  1825.  They  had  six  children  : 

373.  Leonard  Morse,  born  March  14,1806:  married 
Lucinda  Briggs.  and  had  five  children. 

374.  McHnda,  born  Jan.   22.    1808.   married  Samuel 
Gilbert,  and  had  one  child. 

375.  Nc~Mell,    born    Sept.     11,    1810.    married    Sally 
Mann,  died  Sept.  30.  1871,  having  six  children. 

376.  Nelson,   born  April    28,    1813.   married    Betsey 
Everett  and  had  one  child. 

377.  Mary,  born  Feb.   14,  1815.  married  John  J.  G. 
Fisher  and  had  five  children. 

378.  Eliza,   born   March   28.    1817.    married    Albert 
Plimpton  and  had  six  children. 

(166.)  PKODV  PA  INK.  daughter  of"  Joel  (loy),  mar- 
ried  Haskins  and  had  numerous  children,  the 

names  of  which  the  writer  has  been  unable  to  ascertain. 

(167.)  ROXALINA  PAIXK.  daughter  of  Joel  (109). 
married  Amos  Paine  (174),  April  5,  181  2.  and  died  with- 
out issue,  December,  1847. 

(169.)  POLLY  PAINK,  daughter  of  Joel  (109).  mar- 
ried Isaac  I'aine,  (170).  April  5,  1812.  and  had  several 
children  to  be  given  under  his  name  below.  She  died 
May  4.  1852. 


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(171.)  WILLIAMS  PAIXE,  son  of  Joel  (109),  married 
Nancy  G rover  (190),  Nov.  23,  1816,  died  Aug.  4,  1830. 
They  had  three  children  : 

379.  Thomas   Willard. 

380.  Joseph  Anson. 

381.  Laura  Ann. 

(172.)  JOEL  PAINE,  son  of  Joel  (109),  married  En- 
nice  Lane,  and  died  June,  1827.  They  had  three  children  : 

382.  Joseph. 

383.  Henry  M. 

384.  Theodore^  married  and  died  in  California. 

( 1 73.)  NELSON  PAINE,  the  youngest  son  of  Joel  ( 109) , 
married  Belinda  Shaw,  June  19,  1828,  at  Foxboro.  He 
died  June  22,  1876,  at  the  age  of  72  years.  She,  still 
alive,  1881,  and  has  aided  much  in  the  compilation  of 
these  statistics.  They  had  five  children  : 

385.  Frederick,  born  April  12,  1829. 

386.  Sarah  5.,  born  March  22,  1831. 

387.  Henry  N..  born  Feb.  5,  1834. 

388.  Chloe  S.*  born  March  4,  1836,  unmarried. 

389.  Edivard  Payson,  born  Aug.  21,  1842. 

(174.)  AMOS  PAINE,  son  of  Enoch  (no),  born  Sept. 
3,  1781,  married  Roxalina  Paine  (167),  April  5,  1812, 
and  died  without  issue.  She  died  December.  1847. 

(175.)  ELIZABETH  PAINE,  daughter  of  Enoch  (110), 
born  Jan.  31,  1783,  married  Timothy  T.  Fisher,  April  2, 
1812.  and  had  five  children: 

390.  Timothv   W.  Fisher. 

391.  Betsey  L. 

392.  Amos  Morse.  • 

393.  Hcnrv  Benjamin. 

394.  Comfort  O. 


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(176.)  ISAAC  PAINE,  son  of  Enoch  (i  10).  born  April 
8,  1786,  married  Polly  Paine  (169),  April  5,  1812,  died 
March  28,  1864,  and  had  six  children: 

39 v     Augustus   ll'/l/iains.  born  June  i.  1812. 

396.     Hosea  Erastus.  born  July  22,  1814. 

397-      James  Edward*  born  July  10.  1823. 

398.  Loci  Nelson*  born  July  21,  1827. 

399.  Mary  Ann.  born  Sept.  22.  1816,  died  young. 

400.  Susan  Adcle.  born  Oct.  27,  1818,  died  young. 
4uoa.    Elizabeth    W..  born  Dec.  4,  1820,  died  young. 
(177.)     Lois  PAIN K.  daughter  of  Enoch   (no),  born 

Aug.  12.  1791.  married  Charles  Simpson  and  died  with- 
out issue. 

(178.)  ESTHER  PAINE,  daughter  of  Enoch  ( 1 10).  born 
Feb.  23,  1802,  married  Comfort  Titus,  July  4.  1822.  and 
had  six  children  : 

401.  James  M.   Titus*  born  Sept.  4.  1827. 

402.  Lewis.  ». 

403.  Olive,  born  Nov.  12.  1822. 

404.  Maria,  married French. 

405.  Benjamin. 

406.  Jane  /,..  born  May  3,  1830. 

(179.)  AMASA  GROVER,  son  of  Olive  (113).  born 
Aug.  9,  1786.  married  Nellie  Pattee.  and  had  four  chil- 
dren : 

407.  Emily  G rover. 

408.  Abigail. 

409.  Preston. 

410.  Joseph  tis. 

(188.)  ^VIU.ARD  P.  GROVER.  son  of  same,  born 
April  27.  1.789.  married  and  had  two  children  : 

411.  Willard  (trover. 

412.  Sarah  Ann. 


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(191.)  ALVIN  GROVER,  son  of  same,  born  Sept.  8, 
1 798,  married  Arabella  White,  and  had  five  children  : 

413.  Alvin  Grover. 

414.  Manly. 

415.  Maria. 

416.  Mary. 
417-     Elizabeth. 

(192.)  LUTHER  GROVER,  son  of  same,  born  March  3, 
1804.  married  Anna  Caswell,  and  had  four  children  : 

418.  Luther  Grover. 

419.  Reuben. 

420.  Lyman. 
421. 

(193.)  EARL  PAINE,  son  of  Jesse  (115),  born  Oct.  9, 
1785.  married  Samantha  Clark  in  1810,  and  settled  in 
Vershire,  Vt.,  and  there  died  without  children. 

(194.)  SALLY  PAINE,  daughter  of  same,  born  at  Fox- 
boro  March  22,  1787,  married  Michael  Titus  Aug.  10. 
1810,  and  settled  in  Vershire,  Vt.,  and  had  six  children  : 

422.  Hosea  Titus. 

423.  Lucinda. 

424.  Marinda. 

425.  Rhoda. 

426.  Sarah,  married  Jared  Ames. 

427.  Juliana. 

(195.)  DAVID  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  in  Plainfield, 
N.  H.,  Nov.  8,  1788,  and  married  Polly  Drake,  Dec.  2. 
1812,  and  settled  in  Vershirtf,  Vt.,  was  a  volunteer  in  the 
War  of  1812.  and  had  four  children  : 

428.  Cynthia. 

429.  Lyman. 

430.  David. 

43 1 .  Louis. 

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130  Paine   Genealogy. 

( 196.)  POLLY  PAINE,  daughter  of  same,  born  in  Plain- 
field,  X.  H.,  July  17,  1/90,  married  Jonathan  Clark,  of 
Vershire,  Nov.  i,  1815,  and  had  five  children: 

432.  Sidney  Clark. 

433.  Edna. 

434.  Tila. 

435.  Zina. 

436.  Sophia, 

(197-)  JOSEPH  PAINE,  son  of  same,  horn  at  same 
place,  April  21,  1792,  married  Adelia  Clark,  Dec.  18. 
1818,  and  removed  to  Wisconsin,  and  had  seven  children  : 

437.  Harrison. 

438.  Henry. 

439.  Harriet. 

440.  Martha. 

441.  Ed-ward. 

442.  George. 

443.  Maria. 

(198.)  CLARISSA  PAINE,  daughter  of  same,  horn  at 
Vershire.  Jan.  4.  1794,  married  Asa  Mattoon.  Nov.  13. 
1818.  of  Orange,  Vt.,  and  has  two  children: 

444.  Stratton  Mattoon. 

44  v     Sophia )  married  Ilenrv  Huntingdon. 

(199.)  SOPHIA  PAINE,  daughter  of  same,  horn  Sept. 
12,  1795,  married  Benjamin  Hatchelder.  Oct.  2.  1820.  of 
Vershire,  and  has  seven  children  : 

446.  David  lyatchcldcr. 

447.  Jesse. 

448.  Earl. 

449.  Clarinda.  m.  Sylvester  Godfrey;  two  children. 

450.  Martha. 

451.  Hazen, — M.  I). 

452.  //arrcy. 


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(201.)  ROBERT  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  Jan.  23, 
1799,  married  Lucia  Patterson,  of  Vershire,  Dec.  2,  1824, 
and  has  four  children  : 

453.  Azro.  a  cripple,  unable  to  walk. 

454.  Charles  E. 

455.  Ellen,  married  Orison  Maltby,  and  has  one  child. 

456.  Philanda,  married  Uriah  Colburn. 

(203.)  WARREN  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  Sept.  13, 
1802,  married  Susan  Thompson,  settled  in  Barre,  Vt. 
No  children. 

(204.)  LONEY  PAINE,  daughter  of  same,  born  in 
Vershire,  Aug.  18,  1809,  married  Ebenezer  Sawyer, 
March  17,  1824,  and  has  two  children  : 

457.  James  Sawyer. 

458.  John. 

(205.)  EDWARD  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  at  same 
place.  July  6,  1806,  married  Lucinda  Goodrich,  Nov.  28, 
1827,  and  settled  first  in  Vershire,  and  about  thirty  years 
ago,  removed  to  Wisconsin,  and  has  four  children  : 

4^9.     Lticina. 

460.  Abner. 

461.  Luc  i  en. 

462.  Ed-ward. 

(206.)  ISAAC  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  at  same  place, 
April  26,  1808,  married  Martha  L.  G.  Knights,  May  27, 
1830,  removed  to  Windsor,  Vt.,  and  afterwards  to  Middle- 
port.  O..  where  he  died  April  27,  1879,  having  five  chil- 
dren : 

463.  Milton  Kendall,  born  July  15.  1834. 

464.  Georgianna,  born  Feb.  10,  1836. 

465.  Isaac  Newton,  born  Oct.  3.  1837,  died  May.  1850. 

466.  Jesse  Clinton,  born  May  10,  1839.  lives  at  Win- 
chester, Mass. 


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467.  yoscph  Webster,  born  Aug.  14,  1841,  died,  1875. 
(208.)     TIIADDEUS  PAINE,  son  of  Edward  (  1  16),  born 

Nov.  14,  1788,  lived  at  Leicester,  Vt.,  married  Esther 
Hump,  and  died  June  21,  1819,  leaving  a  widow  who 
married  again.  They  had  two  children  : 

468.  Statia,  b.  March  26,  1818,  married  Wm.  Ward. 

469.  Thaddcus  J/.,  born  Oct.  6,  1819. 

(212.)  ENOCH  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  Dec.  29, 
1796,  married  Rebecca  Burdett,  and  is  still  alive,  in  1878. 
Has  four  children  : 

470.  Abbie,  born  Aug.  31,  1820. 

471.  George,  born  Feb.  n,  1824. 

472.  Susan,  born  May  5,  1828,  died,  1873. 

473.  Olive,  born  June  27,  1841,  died  July  10.  1873 
(213.)     JOHN  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  June  30,  1798, 

married  Lucy  Whitney,  and  died  Aug.  7,  1876,  having 
four  children  : 

474.  Lucia  J/.,born  Sept.  27.  1826,  married  Otis  H. 
Capron,  and  died  April  3.  1871. 

475.  Ed~jcard,  born  Jan.  19,  1829. 

476.  German    G.,  born  Sept.   20.  1830.  died  March 


477-      James  .S'.,  born  June  4,  1832,  died  Feb.  iH,  18^7. 

(214.)  ASA  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  Aug.  26.  1801. 
married  first.  Harriet  Harton.  and  second.  Sallv  Keeley. 
He  died  Sept.  24,  1867,  leaving  one  child  In  his  first. 
and  four  by  his  second  wife  : 

478.  Sa  rah,  born  Apr.  23.  1825.  in.  Franklin  Winslow. 

479.  Harriet,  born  April  26,  1835. 

480.  Olive  /?..  1).  Aug  13.  1836.  m.  \V.  \V.  Thomas. 

481.  /{(/ward  /„..  born  April  3.  1841. 

482.  Catharine,  born  June  21.  1844.  d.  July  4,  1848. 


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(216.)  ICHABOD  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  Dec.  15, 
1804,  married,  first,  Clarissa  Dow,  and  second,  Julia  E. 
Knight,  and  died  March  4,  1870,  having  three  children, 
by  his  first  wife  : 

483.  Lenora.  b.  March  20,  1832,  d.  March  18,  1835. 

484.  Alanson,  born  Feb.  25,  1836,  d.  Jan.  12,  1868. 

485.  Myron,  born  March  27,  1845. 

(217.)  DAVID  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  Aug.  21, 
1806,  and  married  three  times:  First,  Eunice  Page; 
second,  Caroline  Ashley  ;  and  third,  Harriet  Ashley,  and 
died  May  4,  1852,  having  two  children  : 

486.  Jennette,  born  in  1831,  died  Feb.  21,  1842. 

487.  David  Wallace,  born  May  20,  1834. 

(220.)  MELZER  PAINE,  son  of  Zebediah  (117),  born 
at  Westmoreland,  N.  H.,  married  Polly  Blanchard,  and 
died  in  1848.  at  the  age  of  68  years,  having  seven  children  : 

488.  Sophronia,  m.  B.  Smith,  both  d.  without  issue. 

489.  Mary,  unmarried,  died  March  23,  1880. 

490.  Jotham  L.,  born  Oct.  28,  1810. 

491.  Esther,  m.  Lockhart  Brockway  ;  three  children. 

492.  Per  sis,  unmarried. 

493.  Harriet,  married  Samuel  Ells,  d.  without  issue. 

494.  Martha  M.,  married  Geo.  D.  Paine  (495),  died 
April  6,  1880. 

(221.)  ZEBEDIAH  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  at  same 
place,  and  married,  first,  Nancy  Hutchins,  and  second, 
Dolly  Dodge,  died  1845,  having  seven  children  : 

495.  George  D.,  born  in  1820,  married  (494). 

496.  David  H.,  born  May  9,  1826. 

497.  Willard  D.,  born  Nov.  29,  1829. 

498.  Lucy  Ann,  married  John  Williams,  and  died. 

499.  Mary  Ellen,  m.  L.  T.  Britton,  of  Elgin,  111. 


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500.  Susan    Caroline,   married   B.  Lawrence  and  J. 
H.  Garrison,  and  has  two  daughters. 

501.  War/ey  *]faria.  horn    1824,   married    Luther  C. 
Kellcy.  and  died  childless,  in  1851. 

50111.   Sarah  Jane,  b.  1840.  died  at  5  1-2  years  of  age. 
(222.)     ISAAC    PAINE,    son    of    same,    married   Polly 
Chapin,  died  by  suicide,  having  three  children  : 

502.  Charles,  lives  in  Lynn. 

503.  Emeline,  married,  and  had  one  child,  all  dead. 
^04.      Justin,  died  without  issue. 


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CHAPTER    XVI. 
GENERATION  VIII. 

HENRY  M.  PAINE,  (249), -son  of  Sullivan  (121), 
born  Sept.  28,  1810,  married  in  1805,  Julia  A. 
Perkins,  of  Norwich.   Connecticut,  born  in   1832.      She 
died  November  9,  1867.     He  is  a  blacksmith,   living  at 
Stoughton,  Mass.     By  this  wife  he  had  one  child : 

505.  Henry  S.,  born  Jan.  3,  1837. 

After  her  death,  he  married  again,  Mrs.  Susan  Cram, 
born  in  1822,  married  May  20,  1869,  but  has  by  her  no 
children. 

(2=50.)  GEORGE  S.  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  Sept. 
i,  1814,  married  Elizabeth  Pike,  of  Biddeford,  Me.,  born 
in  1818,  married  in  1840,  and  lives  in  West  Lynn.  Have 
five  children  : 

506.  Mary  E..  born  Aug.  27,  1842,  d.  May  31,  1844. 

507.  George  H.,  b.  May  16,  1845,  lives  in  Lynn. 

508.  Mary  E.,  b.  Aug.  14,  1846,  m.  James  Lovejoy, 
and  has  three  children. 

509.  Carlos,  lives  in  Lynn,  unmarried. 

510.  John*  drowned  in  1872  or  3. 

(253.)  HENRY  WM.  PAINE,  son  of  Lemuel  (124), 
was  born  at  Winslow.  Me.,  Aug.  30,  1810.  Graduated 
at  Waterville  College,  1830.  Was  admitted  to  practice, 
as  attorney  at  law,  at  Kennebec  bar  in  1834.  He  prac- 
ticed as  such  for  several  years,  at  Hallowell.  with  great 
success,  during  which  time  he  represented  his  town,  for 
two  or  three  vears.  as  representative  to  the  Legislature, 


136  Paine   Genealogy. 

He  subsequently  removed  to  Massachusetts,  where  he 
still  resides,  living  in  Cambridge  and  practicing'at  Boston. 
While  living  in  Maine,  he  was  repeatedlv  ofVered  a  seat 
on  the  bench  of  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court,  and  since 
his  removal  to  Boston  the  like  office  has  been  tendered 
him  there,  all  which  he  declined,  choosing  rather  to 
remain  at  the  bar.  In  1863,  he  was  candidate  of  the 
Democratic  party  for  the  office  of  Governor  of  Massachu- 
setts, but  was  unsuccessful.  He  has  ever  been  a  close 
and  devoted  student,  and  most  popular  among  the  literati. 
An  intimate,  personal  and  professional  friend,  who  has 
long  known  him.  (the  eminent  Chief  Justice  Appleton, 
of  Maine,)  bears  the  following  testimony  to  his  character: 
"He  is  a  gentleman  of  a  high  order  of  intellect. — of  su- 
perior culture. — in  private  life  one  of  the  most  genial  of 
companions, — in  his  profession  a  profound  and  learned 
lawver,  as  well  as  an  accomplished  advocate."  He  has 
accordingly  always  enjoyed  a  large  and  lucrative  prac- 
tice, both  in  the  State  and  Federal  Courts,  and  especially 
as  Referee  and  Master  in  Chancery,  in  most  difficult 
and  important  causes.  In  recognition  of  his  merit,  his 
Alma  Mater  some  years  since  conferred  upon  him  the 
honorarv  degree  of  LL.  D.  While  living  in  Hallo  well, 
on  May  I.  1837.  he  married  Lucy  E.  Coffin,  of  New- 
burvport.  Mass.  She,  born  Jan.  11.  1817.  They  have 
an  only  child  : 

511.      ycannie   Warren*  born  July  16,  1838. 

(254.)  EDWARD  Aroi'STfs  PAINE,  son  of  Lemuel 
(124),  was  born  at  Winslow.  Nov.  27.  1816.  and  has 
ever  lived  nt  the  old  homestead  of  his  father,  wholly  en- 
gaged in  the  work  of  an  agriculturist,  on  the  large  farm 
which  his  father  industriously  cultivated  during  his  life. 
He  married  Sibyl  Stratton.  of  Winslow.  who  was  born 


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Dec.  n,  1816,  and  both  are  still  alive  in  1881,  having 
two  children  : 

512.      George  S.,  born  Dec.  29,  1849. 

=513.     Lucy,  born  July  27,  1852,  unmarried. 

(259.)  CHARLES  FREDERIC  PAINE,  son  of  Frederic 
(128),  was  born  at  Winslow,  Me..  June  18,  1810,  and 
always  resided  there,  until  his  death.  Married  Esther 
Loring,  who  was  born  April  2,  1813,  and  still  survives. 
He  had  a  great  mechanical  talent,  and  genius  for  inven- 
tion. He  lost  his  life  May  21,  1848,  by  boiler  explosion, 
on  board  of  a  steamboat,  of  which  he  was  master  and 
principal  owner.  They  had  seven  children  : 

514.  Charles,  b. Aug. 20, 1834,  d.  June  18,  1876, not  m. 

515.  Ellen  Maria,  born  March  2.  1836. 

516.  Harriet  Newell,  born  July  31,  1838. 

517.  Esther  Matilda,  born  Sept.  20,  1840. 

518.  Otis  Frederic,  born  Oct.  3,  1842,  unmarried. 

519.  William  Loring,  born  Nov.  21,1 845 ,  unmarried . 

520.  Emma  Frances,  b.  Aug.  29,  1847,  d.  Dec. 6, 18=53 
(260.)     ALBERT  WARE  PAINE,  son  of  Frederic  (128), 

was  born  at*  Winslow,  Me.,  Aug.  16,  1812.  Graduated 
at  Waterville  College,  in  the  class  of  1832.  Studied  law 
with  Hon.  Thomas  Rice,  and  Gov.  Samuel  Wells,  and 
was  admitted  to  practice,  as  attorney  at  law,  in  1835,  at 
Bangor,  Me.,  where  he  has  ever  since  resided.  Was 
admitted  to  practice  in  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States,  at  Washington,  February  16.  1853.  From  the 
time  of  his  admission,  in  1835,  to  tne  present,  (iSSi), 
he  has,  without  any  intermission,  continued  busily  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  though  at  times, 
he  has  had  other  business  to  occupy  his  attention.  Dur- 
ing the  years  1868  and  9,  he  held  the  office  of  ;'Bank 
and  Insurance  Examiner,"  and  then  having,  bv  his  efforts. 


1 38  Paine    Genealogy. 

secured  the  establishment  of  the  State  Insurance  Depart- 
ment, he  resigned  his  former  office  and  received  that  of 
"State  Insurance  Commissioner,"  which  he  held  for  three 
years.  In  1874  he  held  the  temporary  office  of  Tax 
Commissioner. 

Though  never  a  member  of  cither  house  of  the  Legis- 
lature, yet  he  has  had  much  to  do  with  the  legislation  of 
the  Suite,  in  procuring  the  enactment  of  laws,  on  various 
subjects.  Among  these  are  the  Savings  Bank  and  Insur- 
ance Statutes,  and  many  others  of  less  importance.  But 
chief  among  his  efforts,  in  this  line,  has  been  the  procure- 
ment of  the  Act  making  parties,  accused  of  crime,  legal 
witnesses,  in  their  own  defense,  in  Court.  Until  this  was 
accomplished  in  1864,  in  no  Court  in  the  United  States, 
or  England,  was  this  privilege  granted  to  the  partv  ac- 
cused. However  innocent,  he  was  liable  to  the  severest 
penalty  of  the  law.  without  being  allowed  to  testify  a 
word  in  his  own  favor,  or  to  make  the  least  defense,  by  his 
own  testimony  or  explanation,  before  the  jury.  As  ab- 
horrent as  this  doctrine  now  appears  to  all.  yet  until  then 
it  was  the  universal  law  of  all  English  speaking  people. 
Fixed  in  his  purpose  of  doing  away  with  this  barbarity. 
Mr.  Paine  caused  the  matter  to  be  brought  before  the 
Legislature  of  his  State  for  five  successive  vearlv  sessions, 
and  pressed  upon  its  attention,  until  the  enactment  of 
a  law  was  efVected.  allowing  parties,  respondent  in  crim- 
inal cases,  to  be  heard  as  witnesses,  in  their  own  defense. 
The  object  having  been  accomplished  at  home,  he  next 
addressed  himself  to  the  work  of  introducing  the  same 
practice  in  other  states,  but  more  especially.  Massachu- 
setts, through  the  medium  of  the  Boston  press,  where  he 
had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  it  adopted  within  two  years 
after,  under  the  leadership  of  Hon.  John  Qiiincy  Adams. 


Ipswich  Branch,  139 

then  a  member  of  the  House  of  Representatives.  Thus 
started,  the  rule  became  generally  popular,  and  was 
adopted  by  one  state  after  another,  until  all,  or  nearly  all, 
the  states  have  enacted  it,  including  also  the  Congress  of 
the  United  States  and  the  Parliament  of  Great  Britain. 

The  labor  of  investigating  his  lineage,  and  compiling 
the  statistics  of  this  work,  in  moments  of  leisure,  has  been 
one  of  great  interest  to  him.  and  he  hopes  this  publica- 
tion may  prove  useful  and  instructive  to  all  members  of 
the  family  interested  in  their  ancestral  history. 

On  the  ninth  day  of  July.  A.  D.  1840,  he  married 
Mary  Jones  Hale,  a  descendant  of  Rev.  John  Hale,  the 
early  pastor  of  the  church  in  Beverlv,  Mass.,  who  had  so 
much  to  do  in  dispelling  the  Salem  Witchcraft  delusion. 
She.  born  May  8.  1816.  They  have  four  children,  all 
daughters,  viz  : 

521.  Mary  Abby,  born  April  i,  1841. 

522.  Selina   Ware,  born  Dec.  24,  1847. 

523.  Lydia  Augusta,  born  Jan.  10,  1850. 

524.  Eugenie  Hale,  born  May  i,  1853. 

(261.)  BENJAMIN  C.  PAINE,  son  of  Frederic  (128), 
was  born  March  10,  1815,  at  Winslow,  Me.,  where  he 
has  ever  lived,  on  the  paternal  homestead,  which  his  father 
devised  to  him  by  his  last  will  and  testament.  On  Dec. 
16.  1841,  he  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Hayden,  who  was 
born  Dec.  13.  1822.  They  had  three  children,  all  of 
whom  died  early : 

525.  Daniel  Benjamin,    born   Oct.    20.    1842.   died 
March  30.  1866. 

526.  Anna  Elizabeth,  born  Oct.  n,  1843,  died  Jan. 
18,  1848. 

527.  Frederick   Hayden,  born  Aug.  30.  1849.  died 
Sept.  22.  1849. 


1 40  Paine   Genealogy. 

(262.)     CAROLINE  MATILDA  PAINE,  daughter  of  same, 

horn  Nov.  2,  1817,  married  Dr.  Preserved  B.  Mills,  of 
Bangor,  where  she  has  ever  since  resided.  He  died 
leaving  her  a  widow.  No  children. 

(•263.)  HARRIET  NEWELL  PAINE,  daughter  of  same, 
horn  Jan.  i,  1822,  and  died  June  9.  1837.  at  the  youthful 
age  of  15  years  and  6  months.  Although  called  away 
from  earth  at  so  early  a  period  of  her  life,  vet  there  was 
that  in  her  history  which  seems*  to  call  for  a  space  here. 
She  was  a  girl  who  had  developed  a  remarkable  character 
for  intelligence,  amiability  and  the  graces  of  life.  A  few 
weeks  previous  to  her  death,  she  had  been  called  to  part 
with  a  loving  companion,  to  whom  she  felt  strongly 
attached,  and  from  that  time  she  seemed  to  have  a  strong 
presentiment  of  her  own  early  removal.  Among  her  pa- 
pers was  found  a  beautiful  original  hymn,  addressed  "To 
a  Weeping  Mother,"  also  an  inscription  for  her  grave 
stone  and  a  text  for  her  funeral  discourse.  This  was  all 
the  more  remarkable  from  the  fact,  that  at  the  time,  she 
had  no  symptoms  of  disease  and  was  in  perfect  health. 
During  her  short  sickness,  she  felt  no  anxiety  to  avert  her 
certain  fate,  but,  with  all  composure,  made  arrangements 
to  meet  it,  by  giving  away  her  little  keepsakes  without 
emotion.  When  the  time  of  her  final  exit  arrived,  after 
lying  perfectly  free  from  pain  and  in  a  full  state  of  con- 
sciousness, for  two  or  three  hours,  during  which  she  fre- 
quently conversed,  her  face  suddenly  assumed  a  most 
beautiful  smile,  and  she  began  to  make  gyrations  with  her 
finger  and  pointing  forcibly  upward,  as  if  she  saw  some 
pleasant  object  and  would  attract  attention  to  it.  This 
she  repeated,  when  she  seemed  to  meet  her  little  friend 
and  twice  called  her  name,  "Oh!  Abbie.  Abbie  !"  with 
almost  an  ecstasy  of  delight.  She  then  began  to  sing  and 


Ipswich  J3  ranch.  141 

was  understood  to  repeat  the  words,  "They  sing  the  song 
of  Moses,"  when  her  voice  became  inaudible,  though  her 
lips  continued  to  move  and  her  hands  to  pass  backward 
and  forward,  with  a  motion  of  her  ringers,  as  if  playing 
on  an  instrument.  After  a  few  minutes  of  quiet,  she 
pleasantly  bid  "good  bye"  to  her  attendants,  closed  her 
eyes,  and  was  apparently  breathing  her  last.  A  word 
from  her  mother  seemed  to  bring  her  back,  for  a  moment, 
during  which  she  assured  her  that  she  had  seen  her  friend, 
then  again  bidding  ''farewell"  she  calmly  passed  away. 

(264.)  TIMOTHY  OTIS  PAINE,  son  of  same,  was  born 
at  Winslow.  Oct.  13.  1824,  graduated  at  Waterville  Col- 
lege in  1847,  studied  for  the  ministry  of  the  New  or 
"Swedenborgian"  Church,  and  was  installed  Aug.  14, 
1864,  as  pastor  of  the  Society  at  East  Bridgewater,  Mass., 
where  he  commenced  preaching  in  1856,  and  has  ever 
since  resided.  Since  1865.  until  the  present  time,  he  has 
been  Semitic  Professor  in  the  Theological  School  of  the 
General  Convention  of  the  New  Church  in  the  United 
States  and  Canadas,  and  is  member  of  the  American 
Oriental  Society  of  Yale,  and  of  the  Harvard  Semitic 
Club,  at  Cambridge.  Since  1852,  he  has  been  a  diligent 
student  of  the  Archaic  Architectural  forms,  described  in 
the  Scriptures  ;  and  to  aid  him  in  understanding  them,  he 
has  studied  all  the  languages  of  antiquity,  that  throw 
light  upon  these  forms,  viz  :  Hebrew,  Chaldee,  Syriac, 
Samaritan,  Coptic,  Talmuclic,  Rabbinic  and  Egyptian  in 
Hieroglyphic  characters ;  Latin,  Greek,  German  and 
French,  of  course  were  also  studied  as  necessary  aids. 
But  he  has  studied  none  of  these  Oriental  languages  ex- 
cept to  enable  him  to  understand  the  Scriptures.  To  him 
the  writer  is  indebted  for  the  information  derived  from 
"Domesday"  as  given  in  the  early  pages  of  the  present 


1^2  Paine    Genealogy. 

volume,  a  work  never  yet  translated,  in  full,  from  its 
mediu-val  difficult  text.  In  Egyptology,  he  has  made  the 
remarkable  discovery  that  the  Pre-historic  Nile  dwellers 
••knew"  that  every  one  is  raised  from  the  dead  and  enters 
the  future  world  "before  his  coffin  is  carried  into  the  sep- 
ulchre." These  ancient  men  speak  of  this  as  "a  fact  too 
well  known  to  require  comment,  and  fully  describe  the 
life  after  death."  As  an  Egyptologist  he  has  come  to  be 
regarded  as  one  of  the  most  learned  of  the  class  in  Amer- 
ica, being  often  applied  to  for  interpretations  of  the  most 
difficult  inscriptions.  For  a  few  years  past,  he  has  been 
engaged  in  the  translation,  for  the  first  time,  into  English, 
of  the  old  Egyptian  "Book  of  the  Dead. "a  work  "grown 
white  with  age  before  Moses  wrote,  or  Abraham  was 
born,"  buried  for  almost  unnumbered  centuries  in  the  sar- 
cophagus of  some  distinguished  Egyptian. 

In  1852.  he  began  to  show  his  skill  in  the  investigation 
of  hidden  facts,  by  a  restoration  of  the  ruins  of  Fort  Hal- 
ifax on  the  Kennebec,  a  fort  which  had  existed  a  century 
before  and  which  had  mostly  disappeared  for  two  or  three 
generations.  lie  succeeded  in  finding  and  tracing  out 
the  palisades  in  the  deep  sand  of  the  plain  and  on  the 
hill,  and  in  thus  restoring  all  of  the  three  forts  in  draw- 
ings of  such  perfection,  as  to  be  recognized,  with  excla- 
mations of  delight,  by  a  survivor,  who  had  seen  the 
originals  in  her  childhood,  and  had  lived  to  see  the  pic- 
tures thus  produced. 

At  about  the  same  time,  he  began  the  work  of  restoring 
the  form  of  Solomon's  Temple,  or  the  Temple  of  the 
Kings  and  E/ekiel.  as  also  the  Tabernacle  of  Sinai,  and 
the  House  of  the  King,  or  the  House  of  the  Forest  of 
Lebanon.  These  forms  have  all  been  restored  by  him 
from  descriptions  contained  in  the  Scriptures  alone,  and 


Ipswich  Branch.  143 

afterward  illustrated  by  light  derived  from  his  Oriental 
studies.  In  1861,  he  published  the  first  edition  of  his 
work,  since  which  time  he  has  spent  a  large  portion  of 
the  intervening  twenty  years  in  preparing  a  second  edition, 
to  be  soon  given  to  the  public.  The  Index,  in  one  portion, 
contains  more  than  6,000  references  to  the  Scriptures,  and 
the  book  will  contain  some  thirty  full  page  engravings, 
besides  numerous  figures  or  illustrations,  scattered  through 

o 

the  text. 

His  Egyptian  and  other  Oriental  studies  and  investiga- 
tions have,  besides,  led  to  very  many  other  important 
results,  which,  it  is  hoped,  the  world  will  yet  have  the 
benefit  of,  but  which  are  now  too  imperfect  to  be  de- 
scribed. He  is  still  in  the  midst  of  his  work.  In  recog- 
nition of  his  merit,  his  Alma  ]\Iater,  in  1875,  bestowed 
upon  him  the  degree  of  LL.  D. 

On  Oct.  13,  1856,  he  married  Agnes  Howard,  only 
child  of  Rev.  Adonis  Howard,  of  Medford,  Mass.,  born 
April  17,  1826.  They  have  had  eight  children: 

528.  Edith,  born  June  18,  1857. 

529.  Howard,  born  Oct.  7,  1858. 

530.  Miriam,  born  Feb.  25,  1860,  died  Jan.  29,  1861. 

531 .  Joseph,  b.  Aug.  24, 1861 ,  d.  same  day  of  its  birth. 

532.  Isabel,  born  Sept.  25,  1862. 

533.  Bertha*  born  Oct.  19,  1866. 

534.  James*  born  Sept.  27.  1869,  died  young. 
^35.      Herbert   Ware,  born  Nov.  20.  1870. 

(265.)  CHARLOTTE  ELIZABETH  PAINE,  daughter  of 
same,  was  born  at  Winslow,  Feb.  13,  1827,  was  married 
to  George  Sumner  Leavitt,  May  22,  1851,  and  reside  at 
Foxboro.  They  have  had  four  children  : 

536.  Frederic  Sumner  Leavitt,  born  Feb.  19,1852, 
died  June  5.  1870. 


1 44  Paine    Genealogy, 

^37.      Charles  Paine,  born  Nov.  9,  1853. 

538.     Arthur  Herbert,  horn  May  29,  1861. 

^39.      Harrv  l*linipton,  horn  Dec.  16,  1862. 

(266.)  SARAH  JANE  PAINE,  daughter  of  same,  born 
Jan.  10,  1830.  married  George  Copeland,  of  Bridgewater, 
Mass.,  now  reside  in  Jefferson,  Wis.  Have  no  children. 

(276.)  ABIGAIL  PAINE,  daughter  of  Stephen  (133). 
horn  March  29.  1807,  married  Eleazar  Dunham,  and  lives 
in  Oxford  County,  Me.  They  had  four  children  : 

^40.     Abbie  y.  Dunham,  in.  I).  Rawson.  One  child. 

541.  Louisa  G.,  in.  Charles  Felton.     No  children. 

542.  Elizabeth  A.,  m.  Charles  Buck.   Two  children. 

^43.     Enoch  /,..  died  at  4  years  of  age  in  1849. 

(279.)  ELI/AHETH  PAINE,  sister  of  the  next  preced- 
ing, horn  Feb.  10.  1824,  married  —  -  Dyer,  and  by 
him  had  two  children  : 

544.      Prances  A.  Dver.  in.  D.  \V.  Allen  :  ^  children. 
^4^.      Otis  II. .  married  Lena  Brown,  had  one  child. 
By  her  second  husband,  Rodney  Titcomb,  she  has  one 
child.     They  reside  in  South  Paris,  Me. 

546.  Charles  M.   Titcomb,  not  married. 

(280.)  ROLAND  G.  PAINE,  son  of  Isaac  (135),  was 
born  Oct.  30,  1808,  and  married  Sarah  II.  Cook.  Dec. 
14.  1834.  She  died  June  26,  1856.  Have  had  three 
children,  one  of  whom  died  unmarried.  The  others  are 

547.  Ellen  Gre.cn,  born  April  5,  1841. 

548.  Eugene   Waterman,  born  April  8.  1845. 
(281.)     BRKJGS  T.  PAINE,  brother  of  next  preceding. 

born  Aug.    5,    1810,    married   Lucy  S.  Weston.  Dec.  2^. 
1833,  and  have  one  child  : 

^49.  Abigail  Kriggs,  horn  Nov.  /•  1824,  married 
Jotham  Hatch,  of  Mansfield.  Jan.  10,  1858. 


Ipswich  Branch.  145 

(282.)  CALVIN  B.  PAINE,  brother  of  the  next  pre- 
ceding, was  born  Sept.  12,  181 1,  married  Harriet  Baker, 
Jan.  26,  1834,  ancl  died  Jan.  5,  1878,  having  had  five 
children,  one  of  whom  died  young,  and  the  others  are 

550.  Ellen  Ro-wena,  b.  March  23, 1836,  d. Nov. 7, 1839 

551.  Isaac  Martin,  b.  Nov.  13,  1840,  unmarried. 

552.  Charles  Henry,  b.  Aug.  25,  1843,  d. Nov. 5, 1843 
553-     Francis  Turner,  born  Sept.  10,  1846. 

(286.)  ISRAEL  H.  PAINE,  brother  of  next  preceding, 
was  born  Jan.  28,  1822,  married  Susan  M.  Witherell 
(236),  April  25,  1854.  Live  in  Marshfield,  and  have 
one  child  : 

554.  Walter  Alanson,  born  in  1864. 

(287.)  DAVIS  PAINE,  son  of  Davis  (137),  born  April 
15,  1808,  married  Hepzibah  Parker,  of  Portland.  Live 
in  Groton,  Mass.,  and  had  two  children  : 

555.  Caroline. 

556.  Mary. 

(292.)  HARTFORD  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  Oct.  8, 
1818,  married  Dorinda  How,  of  Greenwood,  and  had 
two  children.  Several  years  ago  he  was  missing,  and 
has  never  since  been  heard  from. 

557.  Charles. 
5^8.     Mary. 

(293.)  JACOB  PAINE,  brother  of  next  preceding,  born 
Jan.  4,  1821,  married  Eliza  Frances  Whitman,  and  re- 
sides in  Oakfield,  Wis.  Have  six  children  : 

559.  Frederic  H.,  born  July  2,  1852. 

560.  Paulina  A.,  born  May  28,  1855. 
^6i.      Jacob   W.,  born  Feb.  5,  1857. 
^62.      Hannah  /?.,  born  Nov.  10,    1860. 

563.  Grant  D.,  born  Nov.  3,  1868. 

564.  Rliza  E.,  born  Oct.  29,  1872. 

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1 46  Paine    Genealogy. 

(297.)  HANNAH  E.  PAINE, daughter  of  William  (138), 
married  Charles  Heath,  of  Farmington,  in  1830,  and  died 
Sept.  8,  1848,  and  had  five  children  : 

565.  Susan  Heath,\*.  Nov.  1832,  m.  J.  Beedy  in  1849. 

566.  Leonard^  born  1833,  died  1834. 

567.  Zera,  b.  1835,  m.  G.  Batchclder,  1861,  d.  1875. 

568.  Emily  //.,  b.  1838,  m.  Roscoe  Whitney,  1861. 

569.  Cynthia  A.,  born  1841 ,  m.  Jacob  P.  Curtis,  1868. 
(298.)     CYNTHIA  C.  PAINE,  sister  of  next  preceding, 

was  born  Nov.  25,  1812,  married  Elias  Thompson,  July  I, 
1835,  who  died  Aug.  16,  1874.  They  lived  at  Thomaston, 
Me.,  and  had  three  children  : 

570.  Cynthia  A.  Thompson^).  Jan.  24.  1839,  no*  nl> 

571.  Helen  E.,  born  June  i,  1844. 

572.  Theresa  E.,  born  Oct.  i,  1848. 

(299.)  WILLIAM  D.  PAINE,  son  of  William  (138), 
born  March  26,  1815,  at  Paris,  Me.,  married  Diana  Jordan 
Nov.  12,  1848,  and  died  Dec.  16,  1865.  at  same  place,  and 
had  three  children  : 

5573.      Horace  C.,  who  died  in  1861. 

574.  Azclia. 

575.  William  B. 

(300.)  DANIEL  S.  PAINE,  brother  of  next  preceding, 
born  Aug.  3,  1817,  and  married  Eli/abeth  Ridlow.  in 
Thomaston,  Oct.  29,  1845.  Had  one  child: 

576.  Elias   7'.,  b.  Nov.  18,  1848,  died  Nov.  29.  1848. 

• 

(301.)  HORACE  PAINE,  brother  of  same,  born  April 
11,  1823,  married  Ro/.illa  Stevens.  He  was  in  the  War 
of  the  Rebellion,  and  died  at  Baton  Rouge.  Aug.  9,  1863, 
having  four  children  : 

577.  yoscfih  I).,  born  in  1854. 

578.  Ida   E.i  born  in  1852.  died  in  1854. 

579.  Alice  .I/.,  born  June  26.  18^6.  died  in  1877. 


Ipswich  Branch.  147 

580.  Walter  H.,  born  July  24,  1858,  died  in  1877. 
(303.)     CHARLES  M.  PAINE,  son  of  Nathan    (139), 

was  born  Dec.  i,  1812,  and  married  Eliza  P.  King.  He 
resides  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  but  does  business,  as  an 
optician,  in  Boston.  He  has  seven  children : 

581.  Eliza  A.,  born  April  n,  1839. 

582.  Charles  A.,  born  July  i,  1841. 

583.  Adelaid  F.,  born  Aug.  30,  1843. 

584.  Caroline  R.,  born  Dec.  26,  1844. 

585.  Emma  L.,  born  Sept.  30,  1848,  not  married. 

586.  Frederick   W.,  born  March  23,  1850:  not  m. 

587.  Ermina  D.,  born  March  15,  1854. 

(304.)  HEXRY  M.  PAIXE,  brother  of  next  preceding, 
lives  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  married  Betsey  Brown,  and  has 
three  children  : 

588.  Ellen   V. 

589.  Ed-win  A. 

590.  Alice. 

(305.)  GE"ORGE  P.  PAIXE,  son  of  Nathan  (139),  mar- 
ried Abilena  ChafFee,  and  lives  in  Worcester ;  no  ch. 

(306. )  H  AXXAH  M.  PAIXE,  daughter  of  Nathan  (139) , 
married  Winchester  Whitman.  They  live  in  Wapawn, 
Minn.,  and  have  four  children: 

591.  Eliza  F.    Whitman,  born  July  26,  1833. 

592.  Arabell  A.,  born  March  9,  1835. 

593.  Charles  //.,  born  July  15,  1838. 

594.  Anson  C.,  born  Nov.  26,  1852. 

(3I5-)  JOSEPH  E.  PAIXE,  son  of  Emerson  (150),  was 
born  at  Middleboro,  Mass.,  Oct.  20,  1817,  married  Eliza 
P.  Glover,  of  Milton,  Mass.,  Nov.  23,  1852,  and  now 
lives  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  is  distinguished  as  a  skillful 
expert  in  handwriting,  and  is  very  frequently  called  as 
witness  in  cases  of  forgerv  and  on  occasions  where  the 


1 48  Paine   Genealogy. 

genuineness  of  handwriting  is  in  question.  In  a  recent 
case  of  law  in  the  Superior  Court  of  New  York,  the  pre- 
siding Justice  used  the  following  complimentary  remarks 
relative  to  Mr.  Paine,  who  had  testified  as  a  witness  in 
the  case.  Speaking  of  the  evidence  ottered,  the  Judge, 
according  to  the  Court  Report,  remarked:  "And  in 
addition,  there  was  the  testimony  of  the  expert,  Mr. 
Paine,  which  it  is  impossible  to  carefully  examine,  with- 
out being  impressed  by  the  extent,  the  minuteness  and 
the  relevancy  of  his  illustrations  and  the  force  of  his 
opinions  and  conclusions.  They  seem  to  indicate,  that 
skill  and  the  resources  of  science  are  destined  to  discover 
forgery,  with  a  certainty,  but  little  short  of  a  mathematical 
demonstration."  (37  N.  Y.  Sup.  Ct.  Rep.,  26.)  They 
have  had  four  children,  all  born  in  Brooklyn  : 

595.  Rosalie,  born  Jan.  3,  1854. 

595a.  A  daughter,  born  Jan.  31,  1857,  died  same  day. 
595b.  Laura  W.,\>.  Feb.  n,  1858,  died  Mar.  10,  1868. 

596.  Mary  Eliza,  born  Dec.  17,  1859. 

(316.)  CIIAKLKS  H.  PAINE,  son  of  Emerson  (150), 
was  born  Jan.  5,  1820,  married  Cordelia  Bryant,  of  Hal- 
ifax, Mass.,  where  he  resides.  He  is.  at  present,  county 
commissioner  for  his  county.  Had  nine  children  : 

597.  Lydia  K.,  born  Feb.  10,  1846,  d.  Feb.  8,  1854. 
597a.    Charles  J.,  born  Aug.  24,  1847. 

597b.  Lucy  C.,  born  July.  12.  1849,  d.  Sept.  13,  1852. 
597c.  Edward  E.,  b.  Oct.  20,  1851,  d.  Sept.  15,  1852. 
597<1.  Lucy  E.,  born  June  25.  1853.  d.  June  20,  1857. 

598.  Annie  /?.,  born  Nov.  13.  1854. 

599.  l^rank  E..  born  June  29,   1857. 

600.  Emerson,  born  March  31.  iS6o. 

601.  Lena  /*'..  born  Oct.  itS.  1866. 


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(317.)  HORATIO  E.  PAINE,  son  of  Emerson  (150), 
born  June  1 1 ,  1822,  married  Sarah  Atherton,  of  Brockton, 
Mass.,  and  lives  in  Boston,  and  has  four  children  : 

602.  Bradford. 

603.  Mary,  married  Lyman  Howe. 

604.  Walter. 

605.  Annie. 

(318.)  MARY  N.  PAINE,  daughter  of  Emerson  (150), 
born  Nov.  27,  1823,  married  Oliver  Holmes,  of  Halifax, 
Mass.,  and  resides  at  East  Bridge-water,  and  has  six 
children  : 

606.  Charles  E.  Holmes,  born  Aug.  ^,  1844,  married 
Augusta   Osborn,    Aug.    27,    1871,   and  has   one    child, 
Ernest,  born  Aug.  27,  1874. 

607.  Sarah  B.,  born  Nov.  9,  1845,  married  Charles 
Dunbar,   Aug.   30,    1872,   having  one  child,    Gertrude, 
born  Oct.  5,  1875.     He  died  September  n,  18.77,  an^  sne 
married  Henry  M.  Howard,  Dec.  24,  1880. 

608.  Mary   Amanda,   born    Dec.    3,    1847,    married 
Robert  Pratt,  Sept.  17,  1865,  and  has  Walter,  born  May 
4,  1868,  and   Warren,  born  March  3,  1877. 

609.  Joseph    Wendall,  born  Aug.  9,  1851,  married 
Lizzie  Huntington,   Dec.    20,   1870,  and  died  Aug.  24, 
1879.     Had  Harrison,  born  May  21,  1874,  and  Wilfred, 
born  May  22,  1877. 

610.  Ellen  B.,  born  Dec.   n,  1854,  married  Martin 
A.  Hayward.  Aug.  n,  1879. 

611.  Willard  T.,  born  April  i,  1858. 

(326.)  HANNAH  MARIA  PAINE,  daughter  of  Harvey 
(154),  born  Nov.  25,  1823,  married  Edwin  Curtis  Bird, 
Oct.  26,  1841,  .and  lives  at  Amenia,  N.  Y.  Has  four 
children  : 

612.  Georgia  M.  Bird,  born  March  17,  1843. 


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613.  Helen  .!/.,  horn  May  16,  1845. 

614.  George  Henry,  born  May  2,  1847. 

615.  Afary  Curtis,  born  May  30,  1852. 

(328.)  PAMELA  FORREST  PAINE,  daughter  of  same, 
was  born  Feb.  23,  1828,  married  George  Henry  Swift, 
March  17,  1847,  ani'  nas  seven  children: 

616.  Emily  Eddy  Swift*  b.  Jan.  21.  1848.  d.  June 
20,  1855. 

617.  Elizabeth  Reeves,  born  July  23,  1849. 

6 1 8.  George  Paine,  b. March  26,  [ 85 1, d. Nov.  19, 1864 

619.  Harvey   Warren. b. July  23, 1855. d. Dec.  10.1864 

620.  Maria  /?.,  b.  May  12,  1860,  d.  Nov.  29,  1864. 

621.  Susan  Forrest,  born  June  10,  1862. 

622.  George  H,,  b.  Jan.  8,  1871,  d.  Jan.  n.  1871. 
(33 1 . )     JOSEPH  WARREN  PAINE,  son  of  Elias  B.  Paine 

(156),  was  born  at  Boston,  March  20,  1832.  and  "died 
in  his  country's  sen-ice  at  New  Orleans,  Nov.  25,  1864." 
He  was  a  young  man  of  marked  ability,  and  a  pleasant 
writer  both  of  prose  and  poetry,  using  the  now  de  plume 
of  "Perigrine."  At  one  time  he  was  associate  editor,  with 
Prof.  Mathews.  of  the  ''Yankee  Blade"  newspaper.  In 
the  summer  of  1863,  he  entered  the  service  of  his  country, 
in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  as  first  lieutenant  of  the  131!) 
N.  Y.  Cavalry,  and  served  with  ability  and  success  in 
Virginia,  gaining  great  credit  for  the  persistence  with 
which  he  hunted  Mosby.  the  guerilla,  whom,  on  one  occa- 
sion, he  chased  for  one  hundred  hours.  Early  in  1864,  he 
was  commissioned  as  Major  of  Colored  Cavalry,  and  at 
once  proceeded  to  the  Gulf  to  join  his  new  command.  It 
is  said  of  him.  that  he  probably  recruited  more  men  for 
the  corps  d'  Afrique.  than  any  other  officer  in  it.  In  the 
Red  River  expedition  he  won  especial  honor  and  distinc- 
tion for  hia  bravery  and  courage.  The  post  assigned  him 


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was  one  of  great  danger,  and  he  volunteered  to  occupy 
the  place  of  greatest  exposure,  being  stationed  in  that 
part  of  the  boat  against  which  the  fire  of  the  enemy  was 
particularly  directed.  Just  before  encountering  the  danger, 
and  in  anticipation  of  it,  he  wrote  a  letter  to  his  father 
explaining  his  position  and  duties,  and  closed  with  these 
words  :  ''Should  harm  come  to  me,  believe  my  assurance 
in  this  solemn  moment,  that  I  have  no  more  serious  regret, 
than  for  the  unhappiness  that  my  thoughtlessness  may  have 
caused  you  and  my  beloved  mother."  From  a  letter  of  a 
business  man  who  was  in  the  expedition  with  Major 
Paine,  the  following  extract  is  made:  "Col.  Wilson,  of 
his  regiment,  informs  me  that  on  the  Red  River  expedi- 
tion, Major  Paine  did  the  work  of  ten  men.  Always  at 
his  post,  never  flinching  from  either  work  or  danger,  he 
was  most  invaluable."  "To  the  colored  people  he  was  the 
best  of  friends."  A  leading  newspaper  of  the  day  spoke 
of  him  :  "Though  a  young  man,  his  life  has  been  a  very 
eventful  one,  and  has  closed  at  a  period  of  great  promise." 
He  died,  at  the  headquarters  of  the  Army  at  New  Orleans, 
very  suddenly,  after  only  a  few  days'  confinement,  from 
disease  contracted  by  exposure  in  service.  A  beautiful 
"memorial"  was  published  by  some  of  his  friends,  con- 
taining an  account  of  his  military  services  and  notices  of 
his  death,  with  selections  from  his  writings,  and  various 
communications  from  his  associates  in  civil  and  military 
life.  He  married  Mrs.  Sallie  E.  Sawtelle,  Feb.  2,  1858, 
at  Cincinnati,  but  afterwards  resided  at  New  York,  until 
his  death,  as  above  stated.  They  had  no  children.  She 
still  survives. 

(332.)  EMMELINE  WHEELOCK  PAINE,  daughter  of 
Elias  B.  (156),  was  born  June  2,  1834,  at  Boston,  mar- 
ried Thomas  F.  Frobisher,  April  27,  1857,  and  resides 
in  Cleveland.  Ohio.  Has  three  children  : 


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623.  Agnes  Frobishcr, b.  May  4, 1858,  <1.  Sept-5, 1858. 

624.  Emma  Frances ',  horn  July  16,  1860. 

625.  Nettie,  born  May  27,  1864,  died  Aug.  27.  1864. 
(333-)     GEORGIAXNA  PAINE,  daughter  of  same,  horn 

at  Roxbury.  Mass.,  Oct.  3,  1840,  married  Nov.  24.  1864. 
Dr.  A.  Everett,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where  they  still 
reside.  Have  no  children. 

(334.)  JANE  FRANCES  PAINE,  sister  of  next  preced- 
ing, born  in  Boston,  Dec.  23,  1842,  married  George 
Francis  Leslie,  of  Saxonville,  March  15,  1864.  and  died 
June  30,  1870.  He  died  soon  after,  leaving  an  only  child, 
who  was  adopted  by  Dr.  Everett  and  wife  (333)  : 

626.  Emma  Louise  Leslie,  born  Feb.  18,  1867. 
(335.)  ANTOINETTE  ELIZA  PAINE,  sister  of  foregoing, 

born  in  Boston,  July  11.  1844,  married  Win.  Mansfield, 
of  Marlboro,  Mass.,  Jan.  10,  1870.  and  died  Jan.  2^. 
1871,  having  no  children. 

(356.)  RICHARD  PAINE,  son  of  Joseph  (162),  was 
born  in  Foxboro,  May  25,  1806.  formerly  lived  in  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  and  now  in  Stony  Creek,  Conn.  He  is  an 
engraver  of  seals,  dies,  etc.,  and  to  him  we  are  indebted 
for  the  engraving  of  the  "Coat  of  Arms"  of  the  family, 
which  forms  a  part  of  this  book.  He  was  formerly  en- 
gaged as  manufacturer  of  small  arms  in  the  Ames  Manu- 
factory, at  Springfield.  Mass.,  and  in  1843,  was  appointed 
Inspector,  in  the  Navy  Bureau  of  Ordnance,  at  Wash- 
ington City,  reporting  to  the  Commodore.  He  was 
afterwards  transferred  to  Philadelphia,  under  Commodore 
Warrington.  chief  of  the  bureau,  since  which  time  he 
has  been  employed,  at  diiVcrent  times,  in  several  different 
places  in  the  government  service/but  more  particularly 
at  Springfield,  under  command  of  the  late  lamented  Gen. 
Ripley.  Superintendent  of  the  Armory.  He  married  Avis 


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Kinsley,  of  Canton,  Mass.,   born  Dec.    29.   1814.     They 
have  had  four  children  : 

627.  Nancy  B.,  born  Aug.  28,  1837. 

628.  Richard.  Jr.,  born  July  17,  1839. 

629.  James  C.,  born  March  8.  1845,  died  in  infancy. 

630.  Martha,  born  February.  1849. 

(379.)  THOMAS  WILLARD  PAINE,  son  of  Williams 
(171),  married  Mary  Merton,  lives  in  Milbury,  and  has 
two  children  : 

631.  George  7".,  born  in  185^. 

632.  Henry  W.,  born  in  1856. 

(380.)  JOSEPH  ANSON  PAIXE,  brother  of  next  pre- 
ceding, married  Amanda  Burlington,  and  has  had  four 
children  : 

633.  Clara  C. 

634 .  Willia  m  A . 

635.  Amanda,  died  in  1862,  at  19  years  of  age. 

636.  Robert,  died  in  1872,  at  18  years  of  age. 

(381.)  LAURA  ANN  PAINE,  sister  of  foregoing,  mar- 
ried Joseph  Graflbrd,  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  has  three 
children  : 

637.  Eli 'cry  Gr afford. 

638.  Robert. 

639.  A  daughter. 

(383.)  HENRY  M.  PAINE,  brother  of  next  preceding, 
lives  in  Chicago.  Has  two  children  : 

640.  Charles  Henry. 

641.  Henrv  Charles. 

(38  v)  FREDERICK  PAINE,  son  of  Nelson  (173),  born 
in  Foxboro,  April  12,  1829,  married  Martha  A*  Day, 
Oct.  30.  1853,  resides  at  Mansfield,  and  has  one  child  : 

642.  Charles  Frederick,  born  March  7,  1855. 


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(386.)  SAKAII  S.  PAIXK.  sister  of  next  preceding,  born 
March  22,  1831,  in  Mansfield,  married  Simmer  A.  Bragg, 
and  have  had  seven  children  : 

643.  Emma  Rragg,  horn  April  8.  1853.  died  young. 

644.  George  //.,  horn  Jan.  30,  1855. 

645.  William  A.,  horn  Dec.  24,  1856. 

646.  Herbert  S.^  born  Aug.  4,  1860. 

647.  Emma  J/.,  born  July  16,  1863,  died  young. 

648.  Frank  A7".,  born  Jan.  27,  1867. 

649.  Edward  /*.,  horn  June  22,  1869. 

(387.)  HENRY  N.  PAINE,  brother  of  preceding,  born 
Feb.  8,  1834,  at  Mansfield,  married  Mary  E.  Belcher, 
Dec.  31,  1855,  and  has  five  children  : 

650.  Mary  //.,  born  Oct.  2,  1856,  died  Jan.  30,  1861. 

651.  Carrie  /,.,  born  May  3,  1858. 

652.  Lillie  A.,  born  March  28,  1860,  d.  Feb.  13.  1881 . 

653.  Jennie  G.,  born  July  17.  1862. 

654.  Henry  N.,  born  Dec.  25,  1869. 

(389.)  EDWARD  PAYSON  PAINE,  brother  of  preceding, 
born  Aug.  21,  1842,  married  first,  Hannah  Topi  iff,  Jan. 
10,  1869  :  second,  Judith  Cole,  Oct.  7,  1873.  and  had  two 
children  : 

655.  Harold  E.i  who  died  in  infancy. 

656.  Howard  N.,  born  May  n.  1877. 

(395.)  AUGUSTUS  WILLIAMS  PAINE,  son  of  Isaac  (1/6). 
born  June  i.  1812,  married  first,  Khoda  A.  Phillips,  and 
second,  Isabel  Green,  lives  in  Richmond.  Me.,  and  has 
two  children  : 

657.  \V illiam  A.,  born  Aug.  4.  1841. 

658.  George  W.*  born  March  2,  1857. 

(396.)  HOSKA  EHASTI'S  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born 
July  22,  1814,  married  Sarah  Phillips,  and  lives  at  N. 
VaMalboro,  Me.,  and  lias  two  children: 


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659.  Mary. 

660.  Anna. 

(397.)  JAMES  EDWARD  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born 
July  10,  1823,  married  Fanny  J.  Billings,  Aug.  i,  18^2, 
lives  in  Mansfield,  Mass.,  and  is  a  trader.  Has  two 
children  : 

661.  Edgar  Clarence,  born  Oct.  2,  1857. 

662.  Carrie  Elizabeth,  born  Oct.  25,.  1864. 

(398.)  LOEL  NELSON  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  July 
22,  1827,  married  Martha  J.  Watson,  Oct.  2,  1846,  and 
died  Aug.  27,  1870,  having  four  children  : 

663.  Francis  E.,  born  Oct.  6,  1847. 

664.  Adrian  Emmons,  born  Nov.  6,  18^2. 

665.  Elmer   Watson,  born  Oct.  9,  1854. 

666.  Jonathan  May,  born  Sept.  10.  1861. 

(429.)  LYMAN  PAINE,  son  of  David  (195),  born  at 
Vershire,  Vt.,  married  Wealthy  Robinson,  and  has  two 
children  : 

667.  Nelly. 

668.  Arthur. 

(430.)  DAVID  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  at  Vershire, 
Vt.,  married  Clarissa  Chandler,  and  has  two  children  : 

669.  Adda. 

670.  Eva. 

454.  CHARLES  E.  PAINE,  son  of  Robert  (201),  mar- 
ried Sarah  Colburn,  and  has  two  children  : 

671.  Cora. 

672.  Alice. 

(463.)  MILTON  KENDALL  PAINE,  son  of  Isaac  (206), 
born  in  Boston,  July  15,  1834,  married  Helen  A.  Austin, 
at  Athol,  Mass.,  May,  1857.  She  died  Sept.  16,  1864, 
and  he  married  again,  Mrs.  Mary  L.  Smith,  May  6.  1872. 
He  is  a  druggist,  doing  business  at  Windsor.  Vt..  and  is 


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now  on  the  Start*  of  the  Governor  of  that  State.     Has  one 
child : 

673.  Jennie  Louise •,  horn  Aug.  15,  1861. 

(469.)  TiiADDEi's.M.  PAINE,  son  of  Thaddeus  (208), 
born  Oct.  6,  1819,  at  Leicester,  \Tt..  married  Mary  B. 
Chandler,  of  Wisconsin,  lives  in  Waupaca,  Wis.,  and 
has  two  children  : 

674.  Fhebc  E.,  born  Dec.  31,  1853,  married  Edwin 
G  rover,  1874. 

675.  John   W.^  born  Oct.  21,  1857. 

(471.)  GEORGE  PAINE,  son  of  Enoch  (212),  born 
Feb.  11,  1824,  at  Leicester,  Vt.,  where  he  still  resides; 
married  Eli/a  Cotton,  but  has  no  children. 

(475.)  EDWARD  PAINE,  son  of  John  (213),  born 
Jan.  19,  1829,  married  Sarah  Laird,  Dec.  3,  1857,  lives 
at  Leicester  and  has  one  child  : 

676.  Addle  L..  born  Sept.  23,  1858,  married  Marshal 
O.  Snow. 

(481.)  EDWARD  L.  PAINE,  son  of  Asa  (214),  born 
April  3,  1841,  resides  at  Pittsford,  Vt.,  married  Francelia 
M.  Ames,  June  17,  1869,  and  has  two  children: 

677.  Clinton  A.,  born  Oct.  21,  1872. 

678.  Jessie  J/..  born  Oct.  13.  1875. 

(485.)  MYKOX  PAINE,  son  of  Ichabod  (216),  born 
March  27.  1845,  at  Brandon,  Vt.,  where  he  still  resides, 
married  Delia  Lindsey,  May  25,  1865.  of  Hubbardston, 
Vt.,  and  has  one  child  : 

679.  Delmer  /?.,  born  Nov.  7,  1869. 

(487.)  DAVID  WALLACE  PAINE,  son  of  David  (217), 
born  May  20,  1834,  at  Brandon,  Vt.,  resides  at  Wiota, 
Cass  CQ.,  Iowa,  married  Marinna  E.  Lan^don.  of  New 
Haven.  Vt..  May  24,  1853,  and  has  five  children  : 

680.  /.////>  />..  born  Nov.  23.  1854. 


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681.  Selia  J.,  b.  Nov.  23,  1854, m.M.  A.  Sands,  1874. 

682.  Wesley   W.,  born  July  7,  1857. 

683.  Leslie  L.,  born  July  7,  1857. 

684.  Wilton  Albert,  born  Jan.  21,  1867. 

(490.)  JOTHAM  L.  PAINE,  son  of  Melzar  (220),  born 
Oct.  28,  1810,  lives  at  Westmoreland,  N.  H.,  married 
Jerusha  Streeter,  June  8,  1841.  She  was  born  Jan.  13, 
1818,  and  died  June  20,  1861,  leaving  six  children  : 

685.  Jotham  Melzar,  born  Oct.  25,  1842. 

686.  Maria  J.,  born  Oct.  22,  1844. 

687.  Frank  H. ,  born  Jan.  26,  1847. 

688.  Eunice  E.,  born  Dec.  30,  1850. 

689.  Addie  E.,  born  Dec.  5,  1853. 

690.  Alexander,  born  May  5,  1857. 

(495.)  GEORGE  DUNBAR  PAINE,  son  of  Zebediah 
(221),  born  in  Westmoreland  in  1820,  married  in  1847, 
Martha  M.  Paine  (494),  who  died  April  6,  1880,  at 
Waukegan,  111.  He  died  March  19,  1851,  leaving  two 
children  : 

691.  Sarah  Jane*  born  in  1849. 

692.  Georgianna,  born  July  n,  1851. 

(496.)  DAVID  H.  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  at  Ches- 
terfield, N.  H.,  May  9,  1826,  married  Sarah  F.  Larrabee, 
April  20,  1862,  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  where  he  resides, 
and  has  one  child  : 

693.  Anne  Morris,  born  Feb.  28,  1869.    ' 

(497.)  WILLARD  D.  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  in 
Chesterfield,  N.  H.,  Nov.  29,  1829,  and  now  resides  in 
Exeter,  Nebraska,  married  Mary  A.  Moses,  of  Green- 
wood, 111.,  Aug.  29,  1854.  Enlisted  in  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion,  and  was  in  Sherman's  "March  to  the  Sea." 
Has  one  child  : 

694.  Charles   W.,  born  May  6,  1860. 


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(498.)  LUCY  ANN  PAINE,  daughter  of  same,  born 
Dec.  14,  1831,  married  John  Williams,  of  Ballston  Spa, 
N.  Y.,  in  1853.  Bv  him  she  had  a  son,  who  died  young, 
and  her  husband  died  soon  after,  and  she  married  again, 
James  McMillan,  of  Adrian  ;  was  again  a  widow,  and 
herself  died  at  Detroit,  childless,  June  28.  1870. 

(499.)  MARY  EI.LEN  PAINE,  sister  of  next  preceding. 
l>orn  June  28,  1835,  married  L.  F.  Britton.  of  VValpole, 
Jan.  23,  1840,  and  now  lives  in  Elgin,  111.,  and  has  two 
sons  and  a  daughter,  having  lost  three  sons  by  death,  at  a 
very  early  age  : 

695.  George  Henry  Britton,  born  June  26,   1850. 
married  and  has  several  children. 

696.  Allen  E..  born  June  17,  1859. 

697.  Caroline  .!/.,  born  May  8,  1879. 

(500.)  SUSAN  CAROLINE  PAINE,  daughter  of  same, 
born  June  29,  1838,  married  James  H.  Garrison. of  Green- 
wood, 111.,  in  1861  ;  has  two  young  daughters: 

698.  Millie  Maud  Garrison,  born  Jan.  19,  1874. 

699.  ycnnic  Bell,  born  March  10.  1877. 


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CHAPTER    XVII. 
GENERATION  IX. 

HENRY  S.  PAINE  (505),  son  of  Henry  M.  (249), 
born  Jan.  3,  1837,  '^  Stoughton,  Mass.,  married 
Ellen  R.  Riggs,  and  had  one  child,  (700). 

(512.)  GEORGE  S.  PAINE,  son  of  Edward  A.  (254), 
born  at  Winslow,  Me.,  Dec.  29,  1849,  married  Isa  M. 
Kendall,  of  Vassalboro,  Me.,  in  1877.  Graduated  at 
Waterville  College  in  1871,  studied  law,  and  admitted  to 
practice  in  due  course.  Settled  in  practice  at  Ottawa, 
111.,  and  has  one  child  : 

701.  Roscoe  R.,  born  Aug.  8,  1878. 

(514.)  CHARLES  PAINE,  son  of  Charles  F.  (259), 
born  at  Winslow,  Aug.  20,  1834.  Held  the  office  of 
postmaster  of  his  native  town,  after  the  resignation  of  his 
grandfather.  Died,  unmarried,  June  18,  1876. 

(=515.)  ELLEN  MARIA  PAINE,  daughter  of  same,  born 
March  2,  1836,  at  Winslow,  married  Wm.  A.  Stratton, 
Oct.  16,  1865,  and  now  lives  in  Chelsea,  Mass.,  and  had 
five  children  : 

702.  Carrie  Evans  Stratton,  born  Aug.  24,  1866. 

703.  Edivard Bowman,  b.  March  21 ,  i87oat  Chelsea. 

704.  Esther  Loring,  born  Feb.  25.  1872,  at  Chelsea. 

705.  Mabel  Jackson,  b.  March  i,  1878,  d.  in  2  weeks. 

706.  William  At-wood,  b.  Mar.  i,  1878,  d.  in  3  weeks. 
(516.)     HARRIET  NEWELL  PAINE,  daughter  of  same, 

born  at  Winslow.  July  31,  1838,  married  Augustus  Mar- 


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shall,   Nov.    22.    1861,    resides    in  Newton,    Mass.     Is  a 
photographer  in  Boston.     Has  four  children: 

707.  Emma  Frances  Marshall,  born  Aug.  24,  1862. 

708.  Charles  Paine,  horn  Feb.  13,  1865. 

709.  Helen  Louise,  born  Sept.  24.  1868. 

710.  Loring  Livingston,  born  March  27,  1876. 
(517.)     ESTIIKK  MATILDA  PAINE,  daughter  of  same, 

born  Sept.   20,    1840.    married  Joel  Harris  Gittings,  of 
Washington.  D.  C.,  Sept.  25,  1880. 

(523.)  LVDIA  AuorsTA  PAIXK.  daughter  of  Albert 
W.  (260).  was  born  at  Bangor,  Me.,  Jan.  10.  1850.  mar- 
ried Henry  II.  Carter,  of  Boston,  Oct.  29.  1872.  He 
does  business  as  publisher  and  bookseller  in  Boston,  resid- 
ing at  Newtonville.  Has  two  children  : 

711.  Albert  Paine  Carter,  born  Dec.  13,  1873. 

712.  Martha,  born  Jan.  r,  1876. 

(528.)  EDITH  PAINE,  daughter  of  Timothy  ().  (264). 
was  born  in  E.  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  June  18,  1857,  mar- 
ried George  Benedict,  Nov.  3,  1878,  lives  at  Assonet. 
Mass.,  and  has  one  child  : 

713.  Ralf  Chapman  Benedict,  born  Feb.  2,  1880. 
(^29.)      HOWARD  PAINE,  brother  of  next  preceding, 

was  born  Oct.  7,  1858,  at  East  Bridgewater.  Mass.,  where 
he  resides.  Nov.  24,  1880,  married  Mary  Frances  Cook. 
(547.)  ELLEN  GKEEN  PAINE,  daughter  of  Roland  G. 
(280),  born  April  5,  1841,  married  Abel  \V.  Keene.  of 
Pembroke,  Mass.,  April  15,  1865,  and  have  six  children  : 

714.  Francis   W.  Kccnc,  born  May  17,  1866. 

715.  Sarah  /..,  born  Dec.  8,  1867. 

716.  Mabel  A.,  born  Nov.  23.  1869. 

717.  Nellie  R.,  born  Jan.  12.  1874. 

718.  Chester  />'. .  born  April  8,  1878. 

719.  Abbie  /I.,  born  Sept.  3.  1880. 


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(^48.)  EUGENE  WATERMAN  PAINE,  son  of  Roland  G. 
(280),  born  April  8,  1845,  married  Alice  H.  Curtis.  Jan. 
15,  1871.  Reside  at  Pembroke,  Mass.,  and  have  one  child  : 

720.  Grace  E.,  born  Sept.  23,  1875. 

(553.)  FRANCIS  TURNER  PAINE,  son  of  Calvin  B. 
(282),  born  Sept.  10,  1846,  married  Ella  Thomas  in 
January.  1878,  and  lives  in  Cambridgeport,  Mass. 

(571.)  HELEN  E.  THOMPSON,  daughter  of  Cynthia 
(298).  born  June  i,  1844.  married  Henry  A.  Willis,  of 
Thomaston.  Me.,  Nov.  23.  1870.  and  has  thi'ee  children  : 

721.  Charles  H.   Willis,  born  April  i,  1872. 

722.  Theresa  J/.,  b.  Sept.  15.  1874,  d.  Oct.  12.  1874. 

723.  Helen  E..  born  Dec.  23.  1876. 

Mr.  Willis  is  now  postmaster  of  Thomaston.  He  served 
in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  and  was  twice  taken  pris- 
oner. and  confined  in  Andersonville  and  Libby  prisons. 
While  being  removed  from  one  to  the  other,  he  jumped 
from  the  railroad  train  and  escaped  to  the  North.  He 
had  made  a  previous  attempt  but  failed. 

(572.)  THERESA  E.  THOMPSON,  daughter  of  same, 
born  Oct.  i.  1848.  married  Stephen  R.  Estes,  of  Thom- 
aston, Sept.  18,  1871,  but  has  no  children.  They  now 
reside  in  Ilallowell.  He  was  also  in  the  War  of  the  Rebel- 
lion, having  first  served  in  the  ist  Maine  Infantry,  then  in 
the  loth  Maine,  two  years  as  Corporal,  and  afterwards, 
until  the  end  of  the  war,  in  the  291)1,  as  Sergeant. 

(^81.)  ELIZA  A.  PAINE,  daughter  of  Charles  M.  (303). 
born  April  ii,  1839.  married  Frederick  Win.  Jones,  July 
24,  1860,  and  died  Oct.  11,  1863.  No  children.  See 


(582.)  CHARLES  A.  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  July  i, 
1841,  married  Cordelia  F.  Hobbs,  Aug.  31.  1871,  died 
Jan.  31,  1874.  No  children. 


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1 62  Paine    Genealogy. 

(583.)  ADKI.AIDK  FRANCES  PAINE,  daughter  of  same, 
l>orn  Aug.  30,  1843.  married  Alplicus  K.  Smith,  Dec.  3. 

1863,  and  has  three  children  : 

724.  Charles  Lemuel  Smith,  born  Nov.  9.  1864. 

725.  William  Frederick,  born  Jan.  4,  1873. 

726.  JIarry  Kitnball,  born  May  25.  1877. 

(584.)  CAKOI.INK  R.  PAIXK.  daughter  of  same,  born 
Dec.  26,  1844.  married  Frederick  Win.  Jones.  Sept.  29. 

1864.  lie  died  March  5,  1875.    'No  children. 

(587.)  EKMIXA  D.  PAINE,  daughter  of  same,  born 
March  15,  18^4,  married  Sunnier  II.  Daily,  April  21, 
1873,  and  has  one  child  : 

727.  Florence  Mabel  Daily,  born  Feb.  20,  1874. 
(597a-)     CHARLES  J.  PAINE,  son  of  Charles  II.  (316). 

b.Aug.  24, 1847,  m. Annie  M.Cushman, May  26,1867, noch 
(598. )     ANNIE  R.  PAINE,  daughter  of  same,  born  Nov. 
13,   1854,  married  Herbert  L.  Wood,  Oct.  30.  1876.  and 
afterwards  S.  Alden.  Jr.,  June  5,  1880.  has  one  child  : 

728.  Herbert   Wood,  born  April  25,  1877. 

(599.)  FRANK  E.  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  June  29. 
1857.  married  Julia  M.  Drew,  Dec.  20,  1879.  and  has 
one  child  : 

729.  ^fil^lrc^1  R..  born  Oct.  13.  1880. 

(600.)  EMERSON  PAINE,  son  of  same,  born  March 
31.  1860.  married  Sarah  Drew,  Julv  6.  1879:  no  ch. 

(627.)  NANC-Y  H.  PAINE,  daughter  of  Richard  (356), 
was  born  Aug.  28.  1837.  married  W.  F.  Davis,  resides 
at  Stonv  Creek.  Conn.,  and  has  had  seven  children  : 

730.  Antoinette  ('.  /Jtfiv.v.  born  Aug.  28,  1861. 
'731.      J/tit'v  H..  born  Oct.  8.  1863. 

732.      Louis  A'.,  born  Feb.  16.  1866.  died  Dec..  1880. 
1\\.      Gertrude,  born   [an.  28.  1869. 
734.      George  ('.,  bom  Sept.  14.  1872. 


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73 v      Mabel,  born  May  14.  1874.  died  Feb.  15.  1877. 

736.  Edith,  born  March  25.  1877. 

(628.)  RICHARD  PAIXE.  JR.,  son  of  same,  born  at 
Canton.  Mass..  July  17.  1839.  married  Marian  L.  Page, 
.Sept.  15.  1861.  He  was  a  member  of  6th  Regt.  Conn. 
Vols.,  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  and  served  three 
years  as  private, — was  then  promoted  to  the  position  of 
Sergeant,  and  honorably  discharged.  Was  at  the  attack 
upon  Fort  Wayne,  at  Charleston.  Has  four  children  : 

737.  Joseph  B.,  born  Aug.  20.  1866. 

738.  WiUiam  Carpenter,  born  Aug..  1870. 

739.  R.  Sawyer  *  born  Nov.  18.  1878. 

740.  -Effie  Eliza,  born  April  30.  1880. 

(661.)  EDGAR  CLARENCE  PAIXE.  son  of  James  Ed- 
ward (397).  born  Oct.  2.1857,  married  Alice  E.  Codding. 
March  17,  1880.  Lives  in  Mansfield,  Mass. 

(685.)  JOTHAM  MELZER  PAINE,  son  of  Jotham  L. 
(490)  ,born  at  Westmoreland,  Oct.  25.  1842,  married  Perses 
M.  Bod  well,  of  Hallowell,  Me..  Jan.  2,  1871.  She.  born 
Aug.  26,  1844.  After  a  short  course  of  study  at  Tufts' 
College,  he  went  to  St.  Lawrence  University,  at  Canton, 
N.  Y..  where  he  graduated  in  1869,  and  prepared  him- 
self for  the  ministry  of  the  Universalist  persuasion.  Or- 
dained soon  after  as  pastor  of  the  church  at  Gardiner  and 
Hallowell.  Me.,  and  remained  three  years.  In  1872, 
installed  pastor  of  the  church  in  Norwich.  Conn.,  but 
owing  to  a  severe  accident  which  betel  him  there,  lie  soon 
left  the  place  and  the  ministrv  and  entered  upon  a  new 
course  of  life.  He  removed  to  Hallowell.  and  entered 
into  the  employ  of  the  Bodwcll  or  Hallowell  Granite 
Company  as  cashier  and  director,  and  there  remained 
until  his  failing  health  compelled  him  to  resign.  From 
the  effect  of  the  accident  he  never  recovered,  and  an  early 


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death  was  the  result,  it  taking  place  on  Sunday.  Sept.  19, 
1880,  at  the  age  of  38  years.  He  was  a  person  of  schol- 
arly attainments,  of  taste  and  culture,  a  kind  husband  and 
father,  an  accommodating  neighbor  and  honest  man, 
highly  respected  and  beloved  as  a  useful  member  of  so- 
ciety, and  a  devoted  and  successful  pastor.  His  loss  was 
deeply  felt  by  the  community  in  which  he  lived.  The 
several  newspapers  in  his  neighborhood  and  county  joined 
in  eulogistic  notices  of  his  death  and  character,  expres- 
sive of  the  public  sentiment  entertained  respecting  him. 
He  left  a  widow  and  one  child  : 

741.  Charles  Bothcc//,  born  May  28,  1873. 

(686.)  MAKIA  J.  PAIXK,  daughter  of  same,  born  at 
Westmoreland,  Vt.,  Oct.  22,  1844,  married  Dr.  W.  R. 
Dunham.  June  6,  1876.  and  resides  in  Keene.  N.  11. 
lias  no  children. 

(688.)  ErxicK  E.  PA  INK.  daughter  of  same,  born 
Dec.  30.  1850.  married  Frank  P.  Clark,  of  Springfield, 
111.,  fan.  13.  1876,  and  has  one  child  : 

742.  Florence  l\iinc  (.'lark,  born  Oct.  21.  1876. 
(691.)     SAKAII     ].    PAINK.    daughter   of   George    I). 

(f95).  born  at  \Valpole.  N.  II..  in  1849.  and  married 
Henry  Harvev.  of  \Vaukegan,  III.,  in  1867.  and  there 
died,  Sept.  5.  1870.  Had  one  child  who  died  young: 

743.  yrsxf  llarvev. 

(692.)  GEOKCHAXXA  PAINK.  daughter  of  same,  born 
at  Walpole.  N.  II..  July  11.  1851.  married  James  Judge, 
in  March.  1871.  and  now  lives  in  Elgin.  111.,  having  one 
child: 

744.  Caroline  ymlge. 

(694.)  CJIAKI.KS  \V.  PAINK.  son  of  \Villard  I).  (497). 
born  Mav  6.  1860.  married  Jennie  V,.  Taylor,  born  the 
hame  day.  Married  May  6.  1878.  and  have  one  child  : 

745.  Albert  Clayton,  born  June  16.  1879. 


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CHAPTER    XVIII. 

ADDENDA. 

Will  of  William  Paine. 
last  will  and  testament  of  the  original  immigrant 

1  ancestor,  and  American  father  of  the  line,  of  which 
a  general  account  has  been  given,  on  page  72,  is  regarded 
as  a  document  of  too  much  interest  to  his  descendants  to 
be  omitted  here.  The  following  is  an  exact  copy,  except 
that  the  spelling  of  the  words  is  changed  to  conform  with 
modern  lexicography. 

WILL. 

I.  William  Paine,  of  Boston,  having  been  for  a  long 
time  by  the  hand  of  God,  much  exercised  with  infirmity 
of  body,  yet  in  perfect  memory,  do  make  my  will. 

Unto  Hannah,  my  wife,  £200,  and  my  dwelling-house, 
situate  in  Boston,  with  all  the  out-houses,  orchard,  gar- 
dens, &c.  ;  also,  my  mill  at  Watertown,  with  the  houses, 
lands,  &c.  ;  also,  all  my  household  stuff',  the  use  and  im- 
provement of  it  for  life. 

Unto  my  three  grand-children,  which  were  the  children 
of  my  daughter,  Hannah  Appleton,  deceased,  the  sum 
of  £1500,  viz.,  to  Hannah,  £600,  to  Samuel,  £500, 
and  to  Judith,  £400.  And  if  any  of  my  said  grand- 
children depart  this  life  leaving  no  issue,  then  the  said 
legacy  or  legacies  shall  remain  to  them  that  survive  and 
their  heirs  forever.  If  they  depart  this  life,  leaving  no 
issue,  then  my  will  is  that  the  said  £1500  be  repaid  back 
unto  my  son  John  Paine,  to  him  and  his  heirs.  Said 
legacies  shall  be  paid  unto  my  grand-children  as  thev 


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shall  attain  unto  age.  or  upon  the  (lav  of  marriage.  I 
give  to  Hannah  Appleton.  my  said  grandchild,  all  the 
household  sturV  that  now  standeth  in  the  hall  chamber,  to 
remain  to  her  after  mv  wife  departs  this  life.  The  rest 
of  my  household  stuH'  I  give  unto  the  other  of  my  grand- 
children, after  my  wife's  decease. 

I  give  unto  the  children  of  Simon  Evers,  Sen.,  de- 
ceased, vi/.  :  Benjamin.  Mary.  Rebecca.  Christian. 
Ann  and  Dorothy,  £5  each.  To  Simon  Eycrs,  the  son 
of  Simon  Eyers.  Jr..  deceased.  £5.  to  be  paid  when  of 
age.  Unto  mv  sister  Page,  £3  per  vear  during  life.  Unto 
mv  kinsman.  John  Page,  which  now  is  in  his  hands,  the 
sum  of  .£5,  and  to  the  other  children  of  mv  said  sister 
Page.  vi/.  :  To  Samuel,  Eli/.abcth,  Mary  and  Phebe,  £5 
to  each.  Unto  the  children  of  mv  sister  Hammond,  vi/.  : 
To  John,  Eli/aheth  and  Hannah,  £5  to  each.  To  my 
kinswoman.  Eli/aheth  House,  daughter  to  Samuel  and 
Eli/aheth  House,  £10.  Unto  the  two  daughters  of  mv 
cousin  John  Tall,  40.?.  to  each  when  of  age  :  unto  my  son- 
in-law.  Samuel  Appleton.  £10:  to  William  Howard. 
£15  :  to  Jeremy  Belcher.  40.^.  :  unto  Mr.  Anthony  Stoddcr. 
.£10:  unto  Christopher  Clark.  £10:  unto  Mr.  Joseph 
Taintcr,  £10:  unto  Oliver  Purchess.  £10:  unto  Mary 
Ingion.  4<).v.  yearly  during  life. 

I  give  unto  the  Free  School  of  Ipswich,  the  little  neck 
of  land  at  Ipswich,  commonly  known  by  the  name  of 
Jeferries  Neck,  the  which  is  to  be  and  remain  to  the  ben- 
efit of  the  said  school  of  Ipswich  forever,  as  I  have  for- 
merlv  intended,  and  therefore  the  said  land  not  to  be  sold 
nor  wasted.  I  give  unto  the  College  at  Cambridge.  £io. 
the  which  is  now  paid  for  that  end  into  the  hands  of  the 
worshipful  Mr.  Thomas  Davenport,  of  Cambridge,  and 
shall  remain  in  the  hands  of  the  Committee  and  President 


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of  the  College,  and  by  them  for  the  time  being,  and  their 
successors  after  them  forever,  employ  said  £20  for  the 
benefit  of  said  college.  But  the  said  £20  not  to  be  ex- 
pended, but  to  remain  as  a  stock  to  the  college  forever. 

I  give  unto  my  reverend  friends,  viz.  :  Mr.  Norton  and 
Mr.  Wilson,  pastor  and  teacher  of  the  church  of  Boston. 
40^.  to  each  ;  to  Mr.  Sherman,  pastor  of  the  church  at 
Watertown,  to  Mr.  Brown,  pastor  of  the  church  at  Sud- 
bury,  to  Mr.  Cobbitt,  pastor  of  the  church  at  Ipswich,  to 
Mr.  Fisk,  pastor  of  the  church  at  Chelmsford,  to  Mr. 
Phillips,  teacher  of  the  church  at  Rowley,  to  Mr.  Mayhew, 
pastor  of  the  new  church  of  Boston,  40.9.  each.  All  the 
rest  of  my  estate  unto  my  son  John  Paine.  If  John 
depart  this  life  leaving  no  issue,  nor  children  of  said  issue, 
then  my  will  is  that  the  houses  and  lands  which  of  right 
do  belong  unto  me,  within  the  bounds  of  Ipswich,  with 
the  privileges,  etc.,  I  give  unto  the  children  of  my  said 
daughter  Hannah  Appleton,  deceased,  namely  :  Hannah, 
Judith  and  Samuel,  or  so  many  of  them  as  shall  be  then 
alive  as  co-heirs  to  the  same,  to  them  and  their  heirs  for- 
ever, according  as  there  is  provision  made  in  a  deed  of 
gift,  formerly  given  unto  my  son  John  Paine.  If  John 
depart  this  life  leaving  no  issue,  nor  children  of  said  issue, 
then  my  will  is  that  the  children  of  my  sister  Page,  men- 
tioned above,  shall  have  out  of  my  estate  the  sum  of  ,£300. 
to  be  equally  divided  between  them.  If  my  wife  should 
depart  out  of  this  life,  before  myself,  then  my  will  is  that 
the  children  of  Simon  Eyres,  Sen.,  deceased,  shall  have 
£5  apiece  added  to  their  former  £5.  and  the  children  of 
my  sister  Page  and  sister  Hannah,  shall  have  £5  apiece 
added  to  their  former  £5. 

I  do  hereby  earnestly  request  Oliver  Purchess  to  be 
helpful  to  my  son.  John  Paine,  concerning  the  Iron  Works 


1 68  Paine    Genealogy. 

and  the  accounts  thereof,  whose  abilities  and  faithfulness 
I  have  had  experience  of.  unto  whose  care  I  do  commit 
the  said  accounts. 

I  make  my  son,  John  Paine,  my  son-in-law,  Samuel 
Appleton,  and  Mr.  Anthony  Stodder,  niv  executors  :  and 
I  do  request  Mr.  Christopher  Clark.  Mr.  Joseph  Taintcr 
and  Mr.  Oliver  Purchess  to  he  my  overseers  and  feoffees 
in  trust  of  this,  my  will.  My  will  is,  that  if  my  said 
overseers,  with  my  executors,  shall  see  just  case  for  some 
pious  use  and  necessary  work,  to  give  £100.  they  shall 
have  power  to  take  it  out  <>f  my  estate.  2  Oct..  i6f>o. 

WILL.  PAINK.  (Seal.) 

Postscript.  I  give  unto  Dr.  Clark.  €5.  and  I  do  give 
to  Capt.  Thomas  Clark  Company  to  huv  their  cullers,  the 
sum  of  €5. 

In  presence  of  us. 
JOHN  MAYO, 

ClIKISTOIMIKIt    Cl.AltK. 
\VlI.I..     IIoWAKO. 


14  Nov.,  1660.  Mr.  Samuel  Apple-ton  appeared  before 
the  Court,  and  declared  by  reason  of  his  remote  living, 
and  inability  to  manage  such  a  trust,  he  did  renounce  his 
executorship  of  the  will.  Also.  Anthony  Stoddard.  on 
request  of  Mr.  John  Paine,  son  of  the  late  William  Paine, 
did  renounce  his  executorship  to  the  will,  which  was  done 
before  the  probate  of  the  will. 

KDWAK1)   RAWSON.   Recorder. 

14  Nov.,  1660.  John  Mayo.  Christopher  Clark  and 
Win.  Howard,  deposed. 


Ipswich  Branch,  169 

LETTER  TO  Gov.  WIXTIIROP. 

On  previous  page  61,  mention  is  made  of  a  series 
of  letters,  written  by  William  Paine  to  the  t\vo  Govs. 
Winthrop,  and  now  perpetuated  by  the  Mass.  Historical 
Society  in  their  "Historical  Collections."  The  following 
one  is  published  as  a  sample.  The  others  are  all  on  busi- 
ness subjects,  connected  with  the  various  enterprises  de- 
scribed in  the  previous  Chapter  XI : 

WILLIAM  PAINE  TO  JOHN  WIXTHROP. 
To  the  Right  Worshipful  and  much  honored  loving  friend, 
the  Governor, 
Right  Worshipful  and  much  honored  in  the  Lord  : 

These  are  to  give  your  Worship  to  understand,  that 
whereas  Goodman  Metcalf  made  some  speech  of  your  not 
having  forty  bushels  of  corn,  he  should  not  have  needed, 
for,  although  Coley  did  not  deliver  his,  which  I  might 
have  had  of  him  when  I  was  there,  yet,  however  I  would 
fall  short  of  this  forty,  it  will  be  delivered  according  to 
your  direction. 

Sir,  there  is  another  business  wrhich  I  hear  your  Wor- 
ship is  to  have  the  hearing  of,  which  is  between  one 
Smith  and  my  brother  Hammond's  daughter.  For  when 
I  was  at  the  Bay,  he  made  a  great  stir  about  it,  and  much 
desired  that  we  could  go  to  Mr.  Phillips  or  Mr.  How.  to 
have  them  hear  the  business,  that  was  between  him  and 
the  maid  :  resolving,  if  he  might  not  safely  leave  her. 
when  he  heard  Mr.  Phillips  he  would  then  be  ruled  by 
his  judgment:  and  so  he  told  his  tale.  Mr.  Phillips'  an- 
swer was,  that  he  could  not  leave  her,  except  she  were 
willing,  or  else  that  he  could  prove  something  that  would 
make  a  nullity.  And  then  he  resolved,  at  that  time,  to 
go  on  and  proceed. 


1 70  Paine    GeneaJogy. 

More  I  might  say,  but  I  shall  not  at  this  time.  This.  I 
am  sure,  he  had  done  the  maid  a  great  deal  of  wrong,  and 
for  my  part.  I  think  if  they  had  been  wise  as  they  should, 
she  may  make  as  good  a  man's  wife,  as  he  is.  But  I  could 
desire  that  it  might  be  made  an  end  of.  that  the  Court 
might  not  be  troubled  with  it.  Hut  if  it  should  come  to 
the  Court,  then  I  should  desire  that  I  might  have  word. 
But  thus  leaving  and  commending  you  and  all  your  affairs 
to  the  Lord's  good  guidance,  thus  remaining  vours  to 
command,  to  his  power,  witli  my  service  to  your  Worship. 

WILLIAM  PAIXK. 

From  Ipswich,  the  2/st  of  2<1  month.  1640. 


SAL K M    W  IT C II C H  A  FT . 

On  page  94.  mention  is  made  of  a  letter  signed  "R.  P.." 
which  had  a  powerful  influence  in  dispelling  the  witch- 
craft delusion  at  Salem  in  1692  :  and  on  page  139, 
allusion  is  made  to  Rev.  John  1 1  ale's  efforts  and  success 
in  effecting  the  same  result.  The  following  additional 
facts  and  reasons,  bearing  on  the  same  subject,  are  re- 
garded as  important  and  altogether  appropriate  to  be 
related  here,  in  connection  with  the  family  history  now 
traced.  The  character  and  effect  of  the  letter  have  been 
already  described,  leaving  for  decision  simply  the  ques- 
tion of  its  authorship. 

At  the  time  the  letter  was  written,  there  stems  to  have 
been  no  abatement  of  the  spirit  with  which  the  illusion 
was  prosecuted  by  the  public.  Subsequent  events,  how- 
ever, show  most  conclusively  that  such  was  not  the 
case  with  individual  minds  in  the  community.  There 
evidently  existed  to  some  extent  a  feeling  of  distrust  on 
the  subject,  especially  among  the  more  intelligent  and 
thoughtful  men  of  the  day,  but  the  practice  of  "crying 
out"  against  some  member  of  the  family  of  any  one  who 


Ipswich  Branch.  \*j\ 

ventured  to  doubt  the  guilt  of  the  accused,  had  the  effect 
to  smother  every  expression  of  opposition.  How  far  this 
practice  may  explain  the  reason  for  accusing  Mrs.  Hale, 
cannot  now  be  determined.  An  inference,  however,  may 
be  very  properly  drawn  from  the  fact.  that,  at  about  the 
same  time  with  the  writing  of  the  letter  in  question. 
Judge  Corwin's  mother-in-law  was  accused  in  the  same 
manner. 

Mr.  Paine,  as  foreman  of  the  Grand  Jury,  more  than 
any  one  else  had  the  opportunity  to  become  acquainted 
with  the  "true  inwardness"  of  the  accusations,  and  being 
of  an  intelligent  and  educated  mind,  would  very  naturallv 
be  led  to  abhor  the  whole  business.  Of  the  same  class  of 
mind  and  education.  Rev.  Mr.  Hale,  who,  as  pastor  of 
the  church  where  the  delusion  existed,  was  brought  con- 
stantlv  in  contact  with  it,  would  naturallv  be  similarly 
affected.  By  men  such  as  these,  we  should  expect  to 
find  the  first  steps  taken  for  reform,  and  the  succession  of 
events  goes  to  prove  or  confirm  the  idea  that  such  was 
the  case. 

The  letter  was  written  Aug.  9.  1692,  and  was,  as  Mr. 
Upham  writes,  ''the  first  undisguised  and  unequivocal 
opposition  to  the  proceedings."  On  the  9th  and  lyth 
days  of  the  next  month,  fifteen  persons  were  tried,  and 
all  found  guilty  and  condemned,  and  eight  actually  ex- 
ecuted on  the  22d  of  the  same  month,  for  the  crime 
of  being  "possessed."  Immediately  following  these 
events,  in  October.  Mrs.  Sarah  Noyes,  the  wife  of  Rev. 
John  Hale,  was  suddenly  accused  of  the  same  crime. 
'•Her  genuine  and  distinguished  virtues. "savsMr.  Upham. 
"had  won  for  her  a  reputation,  and  secured  in  the  hearts 
of  the  people  a  confidence  which  superstition  itself  could 
not  sullv  nor  shake."  "This  broke  the  spell  by  which 


172  Paine   Genealogy. 

they  had  held  the  minds  of  the  whole  colony  in  bondage." 
Thus  in  about  two  months  after  the  letter  was  made  public, 
the  fallacy  was  exposed  and  the  whole  order  of  things 
reversed.  "A  sudden  collapse  took  place."  as  the  history 
records,  "after  the  executions  on  Sept.  22.  and  the  court 
met  no  more.  The  executive  authority  intervened,  and 
their  functions  ceased.  The  curtain  fell  unexpectedly  and 
the  tragedy  ended."  "The  special  court  being  no  longer 
suffered  to  meet."  another  court  was  established  for  the  trial 
of  the  witches,  and  held  a  term  in  Salem  shortly  after, 
when  twenty  persons  were  tried,  all  but  three  of  whom 
were  acquitted.  Public  opinion,  at  that  time,  had  become 
so  strong  in  condemnation  of  the  whole  affair,  that  Sir 
\Vm.  Phipps,  by  proclamation,  discharged  all  those  in 
prison,  about  150  in  number,  and  thus  ended  the  whole 
delusion.  Why  the  "special  court"  was  thus  treated  does 
not  appear,  but  an  explanation  may  be  fairly  drawn,  it 
would  seem,  from  the  fact  that  its  Judge  was  the  person 
to  whom  was  written  the  letter  in  question,  which  betook 
such  care  to  preserve. 

Though  undoubtedly  many  causes  combined  to  produce 
the  grand  result  now  described,  yet  the  two  just  now 
treated  of,  are  the  only  specific  ones  especially  dwelt  upon 
by  the  author  of  the  history  quoted  in  the  foregoing  re- 
marks. The  character  and  tendency  of  this  letter  have 
been  already  explained,  and  what  effect  the  open  opposi- 
tion of  Mr.  Hale  produced,  every  one  knows  who  has 
the  least  knowledge  of  the  subject  in  question.  It  is  not 
however  to  be  supposed,  that  it  was  solely  the  accusation 
made  against  his  wife  that  led  him  to  denounce  the  whole 
infamy,  much  less  that  it  was  the  original  cause  of  his 
disaffection.  Much  more  likely  was  it. as*  already  suggested, 
that  the  accusation  was  the  result  of  his  previous  coldness 


Ipswich  Branch.  173 

or  known  doubts  on  th.e  subject.  Though  he  knew  of  his 
wife's  innocence,  it  by  no  means  followed  that  he  disbe- 
lieved in  the  existence  of  the  crime.  Her  innocence  did  not 
disprove  the  guilt  of  others,  any  more  than  the  charge  of 
theft  against  an  innocent  party,  disproves  the  crime  of 
larceny.  Be  that  however  as  it  may,  that  accusation  was 
the  culminating  point,  the  last  feather  which  broke  the 
back  of  the  infamy  and  placed  the  parson  openly  on  the 
side  of  the  opposition.  But  he  must  have  had  doubts 
before,  however  ''active  he  may  have  been  in  all  previous 
proceedings."  The  writer  of  the  letter  and  the  parson 
must  have  had  the  sympathy  of  each  other,  and  would 
very  naturally  be  fellow  workers,  perhaps  secretly,  to 
undo  the  great  evil  then  overshadowing  the  community. 

And  just  here  comes  in  the  important  fact,  that  Robert 
Paine  and  John  Hale  were  both  ministers,  of  the  same 
faith,  residing  in  the  same  neighborhood,  both  graduates 
of  Harvard  University,  in  college  together  for  three  years, 
the  former  graduating  in  1656,  and  the  latter  in  1657, 
both  probably  having  pursued  their  theological  studies 
together,  and  been,  of  course,  ever  after  on  most  intimate 
terms  of  friendship.  It  can  hardly  be  otherwise  than 
that  they  sympathized  in  their  efforts  to  put  down  the 
great  evil  which  existed,  and  took  mutual  counsel  to  ac- 
complish their  object.  The  writing  of  the  letter  and  the 
open  opposition  of  Mr.  Hale  were  only  about  two  months 
apart.  The  removal  of  Judge  Corwin  immediately  followed 
and  a  new  Court  instituted,  and  Sir  Wm.  Phipps'  procla- 
mation soon  closed  the  scene.  The  almost  exact  contem- 
poraneousness of  all  these  events  show  how  much  they 
had  to  do  with  each  other  in  effecting  the  result,  while 
the  acknowledged  character  of  the  letter  itself,  in  the 
language  of  Mr.  Upham.  as  already  quoted,  "indicates  a 


1 74  Paine    GencaJogy. 

theological  education  ami  familiarity  with  matters  that 
belong  to  the  studies  of  a  minister."  It  would  seem  that 
a  more  certain  demonstration  of  the  authorship  of  the 
letter  could  hardly  be  asked  and  that  the  other  fact 
related  by  the  same  author,  "that  Jonathan  Corwin  pre- 
served the  document  and  placed  it  in  the  permanent  files 
of  his  family  papers,"  is  certainly  very  suggestive  of  the 
conclusion  that  he.  himself,  added  the  name  of  the  writer, 
whose  initials  alone  were  written  bv  its  author. 


••VISITATIONS." 

On  page  41.  of  this  volume,  mention  is  made  of  the 
"Visitation  of  SuHblk  County."  as  an  authority  from 
which  Jias  been  derived  much  of  the  pre-emigration  his- 
tory of  the  particular  family  to  which  this  work  is  de- 
voted. A  brief  description  of  this  authority  may  be  of 
interest  to  the  reader. 

In  the  latter  part  of  the  i6th  century,  and  the  early 
part  of  the  lyth.  a  very  general  interest  seems  to  have 
existed  to  collect  and  perpetuate  the  history  and  lineage 
of  leading  and  prominent  families  in  diilerent  parts  of 
England.  The  work  was  done  by  a  class  of  men  known 
as  "Heralds."  who  perambulated  the  country  and  made 
note  of  their  discoveries.  These  were  afterwards  pub- 
lished under  the  name  of  ''Visitations,"  each  work  us- 
ually embracing  a  single  county  or  city.  The  principal 
counties  of  England  and  the  city  of  London  were  thus 
visited  and  their  genealogical  histories  made  public.  The 
great  interest  existing  at  the  present  day.  in  such  litera- 
ture, has  led  to  the  republication  of  these  books,  mostly 
under  the  favor  of  the  "Ilarleian  Society  "  of  London. 
They  are  replete  with  information  of  the  choicest  kind, 
to  all  \\lio  are  interested  in  the  history  of  such  families  as 
found  admission  to  their  pages. 


Ipswich  Branch.  175 

Among  the  compilations  thus  made,  is  that  of  Suffolk 
County,  above  mentioned.  It  is  not,  however,  one  of  the 
Harleian  Societv  publications.  As  New  England  \vas 
largely  settled  by  Suffolk  County  emigrants,  the  book  has 
a  peculiar  value  to  their  many  descendants,  now  widely 
dispersed  over  the  whole  country. 


CONCLUSION. 

The  history  now  produced  has  been  made  to  embrace 
the  genealogv  of  the  family,  individually  and  by  race, 
from  the  earliest  pre-historic  period  :  from  the  cradle, 
so  to  speak,  of  the  human  race,  down  to  the  cradles 
of  the  present  dav.  Commencing  with  the  origin  of 
the  race  in  Japhetic  times,  its  history  has  been  followed 
across  the  fields  of  Europe,  through  the  ages  of  Scandi- 
navian and  Norman  existence,  across  the  channel  to  Eng- 
land, and  dowrn  its  centuries  to  the  early  American 
emigration.  From  that  time,  every  family  of  the  line, 
bearing  its  own  patronymic,  is  believed  to  have  been 
recorded  in  this  work,  down  to  a  late  year  of  the  present 
century.  Since,  however,  the  broad  fields  of  the  Great 
West  and  the  Pacific  States  have  absorbed  so  many  of 
the  children  of  New  England,  it  has  been  found  impossible 
to  trace  all  such  as  belong  to  the  family  in  question.  But 
vet  the  exceptions  are  few.  however  much  the  Norman 
spirit  of  enterprise  may  have  led  its  sons  to  seek  new 
homes  in  new  lands.  Though  not  pursued  by  the  writer 
as  a  matter  of  business,  but  only  as  a  diversion  in  hours 
outside  of  office  work,  yet  the  effort  has  been  'made  to 
fill  every  point  and  make  the  roll  complete,  both  in 
names  and  dates. 

The  book  is  respectfully  presented  to  the  many  members 
of  the  family  and  others  interested,  with  the  hope  that  its 
perusal  may  afford  at  least,  a  passing  pleasure,  if  not  a 


1 76  Paine   Genealogy. 

permanent  benefit  to  them,  from  knowing  who  were  their 
fathers,  whose  blood  now  flows  in  their  veins,  and  whose 
spirit  controls  or  influences  their  lives.  At  the  same  time, 
the  writer  cannot  hesitate  to  express  the  sentiment,  that 
all  members  of  the  line  may  justly  reuli/e  as  applicable  to 
them,  the  truth  of  the  adage,  with  which  this  history 
begins. 

"  The  (iforv  of  Children  are  their  Fathers" 


GENERAL  INDEX. 

PAGE. 

American  History  of  the  Family 57 

Ante-emigration  History  of  the  Family 5 

Argument  of  John  Paine  on  his  Trial 89 

Arnold's  History  of  Rhode  Island,  reference  to 92 

Aryan  History 7 

Aurauia  Fort 60,  79 

Baldwin  II.,  King  of  Jerusalem 28,  30 

Book  of  the  Dead,  account  of 142 

Boston  Merchant,  William  Paine 69 

Boston  Property  owned  by  same 68 

Bosworth  and  Market  Bosworth 33,  41 

Boundary  of  Colony  run  by  John  Paine 79 

Bradford's  History 66 

Braintree  Iron  Works 64,  66 

Buckingham,  Duke  of 44,  45 

Calvin,  John 78 

Canpmcus,  Indian  Chief 88 

Celtic  Invasion 7 

Channel  Islands 16 

Charles  II.,  King 80 

Coat  of  Arms  of  Family  33,  38,  44,  91 

Coat  of  Arms,  Description  of 35 

Coat  of  Arm?,  Engraving  of 34 

Coitt  of  Arms  of  John  Paine 92 

Coats  of  Arms 26,32,  91 

Coats  of  Arms  as  Evidence  of  Family  Identity 32 

Commission  of  John  Paine  as  Governor 82 

Conflrmatoin  of  Prudence  Island  Title 82 

Conclusion 175 

Corwin,  Jonathan,  Judge 94, 17;S 

Crusade,  First ...17,27,37 

Crusader,  Progenitor  of  Family  was  a 36 

Davenport,  Rev.  John 61 

Domesday 22,  141 

Dudley.  Gov 61,  62 

Dutch  Government  of  N.  Y 60 

Edmund,  Nnme  of,  &n 24,  38,  43 

Educational  Traits  of  Wm.  Paine 71 

Egyptological  and  Oriental  Studies 141 

Emigration  of  Original  A merican  Family 55,  57 

Expert  Practice  in  Handwriting  147 

Family  Lineage 41 

Family  Patronymic,  History  of 19 

Franks,  Western 8 

Free  Adventurers  Enterprise 5fl,  79 

Free  School  of  Ipswich 71,  75 

Gage's  History  of  Suffolk  County 41 

Godfrey  de  St.  Omer 27,  29 

Goths  and  Vandals 9 

Grave  of  Wm.  Paine 73 

Hale.  Rev.  John 139,170 

Halifax,  Fort 142 

Hammersmith  Iron  Works 63 


1 78 


General  Index. 


ll.ii  ..-i.ii,  Society 174 

Hunting*.  Battle  of 17 

Hengrave.  Komoval  of  Family  to 43 

Henry  VIII.  Sale  of  Monastery  to  Paine 45 

Hennr  VIII.    Execution  of  Buckingham 44 

Heraldry  as  aid  to  Genealogy ::•_' 

Homilty,  Doctrine  of 5 

Hugh  de  Payen 27,  29,  30,  39 

II  11  i:  li  de  Pay  en  a  Progenitor  of  Ipswich  Branch 3<°> 

Hume's  Htatory 6,  22 

Immigration  of  Original  American  Family —   55,  .17 

Interesting  Death  Scene 140 

Inventory  of  Win.  Paine'H  Estate 70 

Ipuwich  incorporation  (irant f>'.> 

I  vanliue,  Extract  trom •_*> 

.1  HUM  II.,  King 81 

.1  IIM.->.  Fort 80 

Japhetic  Race 7 

Jeneries'  Neck 71 

Jersey  Isle 16,  20 

Knight,  Progenitor  of  Family  was 36,42 

Knight*  of  Christ 28 

Knighthood  of  Payne 35,36 

Laps  and  Fins 8, 14 

iaiaetter  County  Home  of  Paine 33.  41 

I  .otters  of  Wm.  Paine 61, 1»H» 

Lineage  of  Family 41 

I xm'laoo.  Oov 80,  82,  HI 

Lynn  Iron  Work* 62,  66,  79 

Massachusetts  Historical  Society  Publications 61,  92,  169 

Manor  Lord  of .  Nowton  et  als 45,  46,  47,  4S,  50 

Monastery  of  St.  Edmund 45 

Name  of  "Paine,"  its  Origin 6.  19,  jo 

Names,  Important,  in  Tracing  Descent 38,  4.1 

N.-iin«-i  of  William,  Robert  and  Edmund 38,  4.1 

New  Haven  I ron  Works 65 

Norman  History  and  Genealogy 15 

Northmen 9 

Orders  ami  Privileges  of  Sophy  Manor  or  Prudence  Island 84 

i  >>, i. u i «J6 

Parties  made  Witnesses  in  Criminal  Suits 138 

Patronymic  of  Family 19 

Pallium,  Pa^en,  Pagiml 19,  '£.',  30,  :«> 

Patent  of  Prudence  Island 82 

Pae<Mi 11).  2:t.  30,  :t« 

Paiiies,  all  of  NoruiHii  Descent 0.  IT,  19.  21.  '.'.'i 

Paine  Ancestor  a  Crusader ,ir,  to  4<i 

Paine,  a  Deputy  of  Buckingham,  Duke 44 

PlscHt*<|MH  Trading  K«Ui!>lixhiiH'nt OK 

Prudence  Inland  or  Sophy  Manor 80  to  91 

Pre-hlstoric  Niln  Dwellers 142 

Pultney.  Sir  William 42 

Pythea*'  Visit 10 

Rod  River  Expedition 150 

Robert,  Duke 17,  27 

Rollo,  Ihike 15,  19 

"R.  P."  Letter 94,170 

lUlnm  Witchcraft 94,  170 

Scandinavian  Hlittory 7 

Scott,  Kurort  from 29 

Soloinon'H  Teoiple 142 

Sopiiy  Manor 80 

Stnrlirtdtt*  U«ad  Minns fifi 

SurnaiiKM  Adopted 20,  3H 


General  Index. 


PAGE. 
Suffolk  County,  Removal  to  ...........................  ......................  43 

Templars  of  Cross..  t  .....................................................  27,  38 

Templar's  Pledge  ...........................................................  28 

Teutonic  Race  ...............................................................     8 

Thompson's  Island  .........................................................  67 

Upham's  History  of  Witchcraft  .......................................  94,  170 

Visitation  of  Suffolk  County  and  Leicestershire  ......................  41,  42,  174 

Visitations  ...........  .  ................................  _____  ...............  174 

Watertown  Mills  ....................................................  „.  .....  62 

Will  of  Anthony  Paine  ..................  .....    .......   ....................     47 

Will  of  Henry  Paine  ..............   ...................................      45 

Will  of  Win.  'Paine  .........................  .  ............................  72,  165 

William  the  Conqueror  ....................................  .  ...........  16,  20,  2(t 

Williams,  Roger  .........................................................     88 

Witchcraft  Delusion.  .  .  ..............................................     93,  170 

Wiuthrop,  Gov  ........................................  61,63,64,65,67,169 

Wulfstan  and  Ohthere  .....................................................  H 

York,  Duke  of  ............................................................  81 


INDEX  OF  CHRISTIAN  NAMES. 


Abbie  ..........................  470 

AbieJ  ............................   103 

Abijrail  ....................  9'2,  209.  276 

Abigail  B  ........................  649 

Abijah  .........................  145 

Abner  ..........................  460 

Acbsa  ...........................  119 

AclMa  A  .........................  251 

Adda.  ..........................  669 

AUdieE  .......   ...............     689 

Addle  L    ....................  676 

A.l.-litide  F  ....................   583 

Adrian  £  ........................  004 

Agatha  ........................     13 

AKiiea  ..........................     16 

Alxnson  ..........................  484 

All».-rt  C  ......................  745 

Aliwrt  P  .....................    711 

Albert  W  ........................  260 

A  li-xander  ....................  690 

Alice  ........................  590,  672 

Alice  M  ..........................  579 

Amanda  ......................  635 

A  nine  ...........................    174 

Ann  .......................  23,36,48 

Anna...   .............  16,82,322,660 

A  nna  B  ........................  626 

Anne  ............................  29 

Anne  M  .......................  693 

Annie  ............................  606 

Aimi.-K  ........................  698 

Anthony  ..............   .......  12.39 

Antoinette  B  ................         XLr< 

A»a  ......................  105,  126,  214 

Asa  M  ...........................   140 

AsaW  .........................  155 

Apollos  ..........................  151 

Arthur  ........  '.  ...............  668 

Aiijjustus  W  ............  ........  396 

A/..;li»  ........................     674 

Arro  .........................     463 

Benjamin  C  ..............  .......  261 

H.-rtlia  .......................  633 

BeUey  ..........................   16K 

Uradford  ........................  «02 

J81 


«:alvlnB  ......................     282 

Carlo*  ...........................  6011 

Caroline  .........................  656 

Caroline  M  ......................  262 

Caroline  K  .....................  684 

Carrie  K  ........................  662 

Carrie  L  .........................  651 

Catharine  .................  141.  411 

Charter  ..............  324,  602,  514,  657 

OliarlM  A  .........................  683 

CI,arl«»B  ........................  741 

<    l,:ili..    K  I"  t 


No. 

Charles  F 2-V.i,  r.ij 

Chnrles  H  316,  ftftj,  1140 

Charles.) M»7a 

Charles  M 303 

Charles  W «94 

Chiirlotte 2!tl 

CharlotteE 206 

Chloe  S 38* 

ClaraC 633 

Clarissa 1!»8 

Clinton  A 677 

Cora 671 

Cynthia 147,  207,  428 

Cynthia  C 1KW 

Daniel 56,  136,  152 

Daniel  B 625 

J>aniH  M... »>7 

Daniel  S 300 

David 195,  217,  4:«) 

David  H 4»6 

David  W 487 

Davis 137,287 

Deliuer  B C7!» 

DoriMs     58 

Dorothy  ..  22,    45 

Earl 193 

KdgarC  661 

Ebt'iieeer  W 252 

Kdith 52« 

Edmund 4 

Edward,  11,  47,  87,  116,  205,  210,441 

462,  475 

Edward  A 2.r>4 

Edward  E .r»!t7« 

Edward  L 4M 

Edward  P 38!l 

Edwin  A 589 

I. 740 

Elian  B If* 

Elian  K 332a 

EliasT f.76 

Eltaha 278 

EllEa 218 

ElitaA f*\ 

ElitaB 327 

Ellita  B 5U4 

Elizabeth....  14,  34,  44,  68,  86,  175,  279 

Eliwtbetb  W 400a 

Ellen  455 

Ellen  0 547 

KlI.-nM  615 

Kll.n  R 5fti» 

Ellen  V f*8 

Elnnjr  W M» 

Emma  F 620 

KmmaL 586 

Emellna 503 

150,  000 


Index  of  Christian  Names. 


181 


No. 

Emmeline  W 330,  332 

Enoch 110,  212 

ErminaD 587 

Esther 127, 178,  224,  491 

Esther  M  517 

Eugene  W 548 

Eugenie  H 524 

Eunice. . .  123 

Eunice  E 688 

Eva 670 

Fanny 296 

Frances 17,  ;-39 

Francis  E 663 

Francis  T 553 

Frank 338 

Frnnk  E 599 

Frank  H 687 

Frederic 128.385 

Frederic  H 527,559 

B^rederic  W 586 

George 9,  442,  471 

George  D 495 

George  H 507 

George  P 248,305 

George  S 250,  512 

(ieorge  T 631 

George  W 658 

Georgianna 333,  464,  692 

German  G.. . .  476 

Grant  I> 563 

Grace  E 720 

Hannah 54,81,93,107 

Hannah  E 297 

Hannah  M 306.326 

Hannah  R 562 

Harriet 439,  479,  493 

Harriet  N 263,516 

Harrison 437 

Harold  E 655 

Harvey 164 

Hartford 275,  292 

Helen  T 332b 

Henry 6,  24,  33,  37,  41,  49,  302,  448 

Henry  C 641 

Henry  M 249,  304  383 

Henry  N. 387,  654 

HenryS 505 

Henry  W 253,  632 

Herbert  W 5:55 

Horace 301 

Horace  C 573 

Horatio  E 317 

Hosea 170,  200 

Hosea  E 396 

Howard 529 

Howard  N 656 

Ichabod 216 

IdaE 578 

Isaac 104,  135,  176,  206,  222,  283 

Isaac  M 551 

Isaac  N 465 

lsal>ell 532 

Isabella  337 

Israel  H 286 

Jacob 95,  100,  293 

Jacob  W 561 

James.... 101,143,288,534 

James  0 629 

panics  E. 3»7 


No. 

James  S 477 

Jane 120,  321 

Jane  F 334 

Jeannie  W 511 

Jemima Ill 

Jennette 480 

Jennie  G 653 

Jennie  L 673 

Jerusha loo 

Jesse 115 

Jesse  C 466 

Jessie  M B78 

Joel 109,172 

John,  7,  26,  31,  55,  57,  58,  84, 91,  98, 213 
510 

John  W 675 

Jonathan  M 666 

Joseph 108, 162,  197,  382,  531 

Joseph  A 158,336,380 

Joseph  B 737 

Joseph  D 577 

Joseph  E 315 

Joseph  H  329 

Joseph  W 331,  467 

Jotham  L 4!K) 

Jotham  M 685 

Julia 340 

Justin 504 

Kesiah 142 

Laura  A. 381 

Laura  W 5951) 

Lemuel  99,124 

LenaF ....   601 

Lenora .  483 

LillteA 652 

LillieD 680 

Leslie  L •  683 

Loel  N 398 

Lois 177,  211 

Loney 204 

Louis 431 

Lucas 129 

Lucia  M 474 

Lucieii 461 

Lucina 459 

Luciuda 149 

Luna 320 

Lucy ....  513 

Lucy  A 498 

Lucy  C 597b 

Lucy  E 597d 

LydiaA 523 

Lydia  K 597 

Lytiian 429 

Maria  443 

Maria  J 680 

Marinda 202 

Mary,  21,  30,  35,  97,  102,  134,  163,  289 
489,  556,  558,  603,  659 

Mary  A., 399,521 

Mary  E 499,500,508,5% 

Mary  H 650 

MaryN 318 

MaryT 323 

Martha 40,  440,  630,  712 

Martha  M 494 

Martha  T 157 

Melzer 220 

Millie 220 

Milton  K 463 

Miriam 530 


lS2 


fmtex  of  Christian  Names. 


Myron 486 

Nancy 191 

N.tn.-y  H 627 

Nancy  M SOI 

Nathan 139 

Nathaniel  W 159 

Nelly 667 

NeUon 173 

Nicholas 10 

OliTO 113,219,225,473 

Olive  E 480 

Otis 120,274 

OtisF 518 

Pamela  F 328 

1'iuilina 886 

I'.niliiiaA 560 

Peddy   166 

Porals 492 

Phebe 46 

Phebe  E 674 

Philander 456 

P<»lly  1«3,  169.  l!«,  227 

Kachfl   M,  112,  122,  i:<0 

K.  Sawyer 739 

Klioda 1«0 

Ki.-hard 356,  K2K 

Kobert .2,  43,  68,  201 ,  636 

Kolwrt  W 144 

K«  .land  O 280 

Kosalle 595 

Koitcoe  R 701 

Koxallna 167 

Kuxiina. 215 

lluth  89 

Sally 114,  1C1,  194,223 

S»rah  80,  118,  319,  478 

Sarah  J 26U,  .TOla,  691 

SarabS 386 


No. 

Sella  J 681 

Selma  W 522 

SilM  25*4 

Sophia 199 

Bophroote 488 

Slupheu 133,277 

Statia 468 

Submit 161 

Sullivan 121 

Susan 50,  52,  47'.' 

Susan  A....     400 

Susan  C 500 

Susanna 90 

Tabitha ' ...    51 

ThHditeus 'J08 

TluwldeusM 4«.!l 

Theodoro 3x4 

Thomas 1,8,20,25,27,38,88 

TlMinaa  W 379 

Timothy  0 264 

Turner...  ..  141 


Walter 18, 

Walter  A 

Walter  H 

Warren 

\\  .1!  i-I  Ill.'Ul  .  .  . 


Wetiltty  W 

Wlllard  D 

William,  3,  5,  19,  28,  32.  42.  53.  79, 
85.  96.  13X, 

William  A 634, 

William  B 

William  C 

William  D 

William  H 

William  L. 

WillianiH ' 

Wilton  A 


554 
5WI 
•J03 
285 
»*•-' 
497 
83, 


•J99 
325 
519 
171 

r.84 


117,  221 
163 


INDEX  TO  INTERMARRIAGES. 


No. 

dimming?  

No. 
308     1    Havward... 

No. 

filO 

A  lion 

544 

Curtis..  289,  291 
Cu*hman  

548.  560 
.  ..  597a 

Heath  

....234,  297 

He-vwood.  .  . 

270 

Daily  

587 

Hobbs  

582 

Hodges  .... 

227 

Davis  

....   627 

IIolu.es.  .  .. 

318 

217 

Davenport  

....   146 

Hovey  

12.3 

^/  ^.    jj  

Dav  114, 

309,  385 
....  267 

How  

292 

During  

Howard  
Huntington 
HutchiiiFon 
Hutching.  . 

.23,  264,  607 
....445,  609 
.     .  .         233 

Babbit  

253 

Dingley  

139 

34 

Dow  

216 

221 

Baker  

->82 

Downes  

....     76 

I 

Batolielder. 
Beedy  

199,567 
565 

Drew  
Dudley  

599,  600 
....   158 

James  
Jones  

....581,  584 

Benedict... 
Beriffs 
Bigg  
Biggs  
Billings  ... 
Bird  

528 
37 
51 
35 
....  1X5,  3!>7 
326 

Dunbar  
Dunham....  238, 
Dyer  

Edson  
Ells  
Kstes  

607 
276.  686 
....  279 

226 
493 
....  572 

Jordan  
Judge  

Keeley  
Keene  
Kelley.... 
Kendall... 

2!>9 
692 

214 
547 
501 
512 

Bex  1  well 
Bowles  
Boyden  
Bragg  
Bridgham  . 
Briggs  

685 
10 
,  102,  127 
386 
21 
373 

Everett  
Eyre  

Felton  
Field  
Fisher,  89,  141, 

333,376         King  
....    45        Kinsley  
Knight  
....  541        Knights  ... 
131 
175,241.     i   Laird  
377        Lane  

303 
£-.6 
216 
206 

475 
172 

Brockway.. 
Brown,..  95, 
Bryant  

491 
152,  545,  304 
316 

Forrest  
Freeman  
French  

154        Langdon... 
256        Larrabee... 
404        Lawrence 

33''             Lnuvitt: 

487 
496 
500 
265 

Buck  
Buflingtoii 
Bull..   .  ... 

542 
380 
85 

Garrison  
Gerish  

....  500 

....     78 

Leonard,  .  . 
Leslie  .. 
Lindsey  

161 
334 
4S5 

Burdett  

Carpenter.. 
Carroll  
Carter  
Ciistell  
Chaffee.... 
Chandler.. 
Chap  in  
Clienerv.  .  .  . 

'.ML' 

99.  102 
131 
523 
12 
.  .   305 
....430,  469 

19 

(lest  
Gilbert  

:;6 
374 
517 

Loring  
Lovejoy  

M'Millaii  .. 
Maltby  
.Mann  
Mansfield.. 

259 
508 

498 
455 
375 
335 
510 

Godfrey  
Goodrich  
Graltord  
Green  
Grigson  
Glover  
Grover.  79,  112, 
118,  157,  159, 

Ha<*er  

....  449 
....  205 
....  381 
395 

....;  4« 

....  315 
113,113, 
171,  674 

228 

Mattoon.  .  .  . 

I'M 

Merton  .... 

379 

Mills 

•>«•» 

Clark.  .'.78, 
Codding.  .  . 

193,  196,  197 
688 
661 

Mor8elOO,110,l33,140,ll>r. 
Moses.  .  .                      <*"" 

Hale 

•'60 

Nichols 

Coffin  

253 

44 

Cogswell  .  .  . 
Colburn  .  .  . 
Cole  

57 
454,456 
38!) 

Harding  
Harvey  

121,  151 
....  691 
137 

Oliver  

54 

606 

Coiner  

108 

Hartshorn  

.164,  344 
166 

Ozier 

••23 

Cook  

.  .  .  .  280  529 

Page  

46,  217,  628 
135,  136,  159 
169,  174,  176 
286.  494.495 

Copeland  .  . 
Cotton  

266 
........  471  • 

Hart  
Harton  

232 
.  214 

Paine..  122, 
167. 
236. 

Cram  

249 

Hatch  

.  .   .  549 

Crocker... 

..  257 

Havden  .  .  . 

.  261 

12711 


.S4 


Jntfcx  to  Intermarriages. 


Parker  
PartriJjje.  . 

No. 

55,287 
130 

Shaw  
Sberwln..  . 

No. 
173 
272 

Tuel  

No. 
..  ..  225 

Walton  

..   .      4 

Patt««  

..          1C3 

Shope  

287 

201 

177 

83 

I'-i-kett  

13| 

Sin  nil  .:.>,! 

Snuw  
Sparrow... 

f>,4K«,4(>3,.r>l<3 
.....'"     14 

128 

Pendleton. 

P.  ikins... 
Phillips  ... 

1WI 
24!> 
"Hlft   3!*6 

Warren  

....   124 
....  3SIK 

\\i-llman..     .   . 
Weston  

....     98 
.   29.281 

P.k-  
PUytorn  
Plimpton..  . 
Pratt  13, 
Puffer  ...  . 

....239,250 
30 
131,  378 
'••'.  1.11,  '•"« 

Spring.... 
Stanley  .  .  . 
Stevens  .  .  . 
Story  

26 
....138,  IM: 
301 

2(59 

...     156 

Whipple 

58 

Stratton  .. 

.271,  'JM,  Sir, 

I'"1 

Whit-  
WhitliiK  
Whitney  . 
Whiltlugton.  .  . 

...  2.Vt 
...       43 

.213,  5«8 

7K 

1 

Uawson..  . 
K  1  
K-iner  

540 
224 
58 

Sninii-r.  .  . 

14C, 

SweeUir.  .  . 
Swift  

Taylor  

83 
328 

\Vliilin  in  

Wi"'ht    .    . 

.293.  30T, 
16O 

Ki.-lianl*... 

...lol.  143 

WiVllaiiis    .   -•'. 
120 
Willis  

230,'  4!IS 
...     671 
478 

Ki.-li:trclson.ll|,  117,  2TKI 
Kiillow  -"VKi 

Thomas... 
Thompson 

TilTany  

.  K«,  4KO.  553 
.•J<Kt.  2S»K.  571 
372 
..87.  183,  147 
279 

50.1) 

Kol.iuson.  . 
I;.  •-!••>••  

103,  115,  42!l 
245 

Wlthereil..   .. 
Wise  

119,  2W! 
.          7K 

Sawtelle.  ... 

331 

Titus  

178,  liM 

WoU'Ott     .    .  . 

77 

15.'} 

Wo<  ><  1 

Sawyer.... 

.  204 

Topi  i  IT... 

..  389 

Wiiulil     . 

'.'.   131 

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